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The Supreme Court declined to intervene in a custody dispute involving California parents and a surrogate who refused their request for an abortion after the unborn child was diagnosed with a serious heart defect. The surrogate, McKenna West, sought conservatorship of the child after delivering him in Texas, while the biological parents sued for breach of the surrogacy agreement and were previously ruled legal parents by a California trial court.

A federal judge has paused a lawsuit filed jointly by Texas and Florida seeking to revoke the FDA's approval of the abortion pill mifepristone until after the November midterm elections or the conclusion of an FDA safety review. This delay directly impacts Texas's legal efforts to challenge eased federal restrictions on mifepristone distribution, which Texas argues undermine its state abortion laws.