Claims extracted
22
sentences that state something as happening or true
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18%
4 of 22 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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not political
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday
in a custody dispute between a California couple and surrogate who gave birth to a child last month with a rare and serious heart defect.
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who → give → defect
Justice Elena Kagan rejected the emergency appeal from the woman, McKenna West, who had asked the justices to halt a California court order declaring the couple, Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar, to be the child's parents.
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couple → reject → order
Kagan handles emergency appeals arising from California and other states in the region.
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Kagan → handle → region
The legal battle involves a surrogacy contract Gilkar and Ahmed entered into with West, which allowed the couple to demand an abortion for a baby diagnosed with a fetal abnormality, according to court filings.
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couple → involve → filings
West, who lives in Alaska, became pregnant with a baby boy in December.
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who → live → December
But in April, a 20-week anatomy scan showed the baby had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a severe, life-threatening heart defect that prevents normal blood flow through the heart, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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that → show → Control
After receiving the diagnosis, Gilkar and Ahmed requested West obtain an abortion, according to court filings.
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West → receive → filings
West refused and
last month.
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West → refuse → ?
She calls the baby Gabriel, and Gilkar and Ahmed named him Rumi.
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Gilkar → call → him
Texas bans abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy.
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Texas → ban → pregnancy
Before the baby
, the California couple asked a state court to confirm their parentage of the child.
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couple → ask → child
The California court agreed, recognizing Gilkar and Ahmed as his legal parents.
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court → agree → parents
The child
in Texas soon after he was born after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened and secured a court order requiring the hospital to provide the baby with lifesaving medical care.
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Paxton → bear → care
Paxton has since withdrawn from the proceedings.
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Paxton → withdraw → proceedings
That surgery, known as a Norwood procedure, is typically the first in a line of three surgeries required in the first years of life for babies born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, according to the CDC.also
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surgery → know → CDC.also
said the California couple, not West, is responsible for medical decisions for the boy.
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couple → say → boy
But West asked the Supreme Court to lift the California order that recognizes Gilkar and Ahmed as the baby boy's parents.
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that → ask → parents
In a filing, her lawyers claimed that the couple is attempting to halt lifesaving care for the child and warned that without relief, West will be denied the right to protect the baby's life.
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West → claim → life
They wrote that under Texas law, West would likely be the child's rightful mother since she gave birth to him in Texas.
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she → write → Texas
But lawyers for Ahmed and Gilkar said in a Supreme Court filing that they have been ensuring the baby receives lifesaving care and "are committed to doing so for the rest of his life."
"Respondents have been with their child around the clock in a hospital's pediatric intensive care unit," they said.
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they → say → unit
"The child has been receiving critical medical care by his team of doctors at the consent and direction of Respondents."
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child → receive → Respondents
They said that intervention from the Supreme Court would cause chaos and confusion over medical decision-making for the baby, and rebutted West's need for emergency relief since Ahmed and Gilkar are providing the child with the medical care that she is pushing for.
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she → say → that
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