Surrogate who refused abortion over heart defect takes custody battle to US Supreme Court
She fled to Texas where abortions are illegal and now wants custody of the four-week-old baby.
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Coverage at a glance
- First observed by CurrentWire: CBS News · Sep 10, 2026 at 6:56 PM ET
- Coverage span: 18h 59m
- Coverage: 2 reports from 2 independent publications
- Coverage growth: 1 → 2 publications in 19h 35m
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Surrogate who refused abortion over heart defect takes custody battle to US Supreme Court(opens original report in a new tab)CBS NewsTier B
Surrogate appeals to Supreme Court in custody dispute over baby with heart defect(opens original report in a new tab)A California couple's surrogate who refused their wishes to have an abortion has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a custody dispute over the 4-week-old child, who was born in Texas with a serious heart… — CBS News
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Signal breakdown
CurrentWire ranked this story 78.7 of 100 in the snapshot this page was rendered from.
- Freshness
- 27.8 of 35
- Source authority
- 20 of 20
- Coverage breadth
- 8.5 of 20
- Geographic relevance
- 10 of 10
- Story prominence
- 10 of 10
- Velocity
- 2.5 of 5
Strongest signal: source authority, 20 of 20. How each signal is calculated.
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