Baby Gabriel was born in Texas on Wednesday after his surrogate mother bravely refused demands from his biological parents to abort him over a treatable heart condition.His birth comes one day after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stepped in to secure legal protections ensuring the baby would receive life-saving care.Immediately following his birth, the newborn was transported to the NICU for treatment of his hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious congenital defect that had been diagnosed at around 20 weeks of pregnancy.WATCH: BREAKING: Baby Gabriel HAS BEEN BORN — after Texas AG Ken Paxton intervened because the California parents tried FORCING the surrogate mother into an abortionShe got protection in Texas!The baby is now RAPIDLY being transported for life-saving care, who was born with a… pic.twitter.com/2iofhwP9XJ— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 12, 2026The surrogate, McKenna West, an Alaskan nurse and single mother of two, had entered into a surrogacy agreement through Worldwide Surrogacy Specialists with the California couple, identified in court documents as Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed.The pregnancy proceeded normally until the anatomy scan revealed the diagnosis of hypoplastic left heart syndrome, in which the left side of the heart is severely underdeveloped and unable to pump oxygen-rich blood effectively.Surrogate Mother Fighting to Save Baby with Treatable Heart Condition from Biological Parents Trying to Force Her to Abort/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i