Kimberly Bird on Alaska Surrogate Advocacy, Contractual Abortion Clauses, and State Pro-Life Ballot Measures

The Marc Cox Morning Show · Aug 17, 2026 · 6m

Kimberly Bird, Communications and Public Affairs Senior Specialist for Live Action, joins the show to discuss the legal and ethical battle surrounding surrogate mother McKenna West and a high-profile Alaska surrogacy contract dispute. Bird details how Live Action and Alliance Defending Freedom stepped in to provide legal defense and medical support when the biological parents demanded an abortion following a fetal heart defect diagnosis. Additionally, Bird addresses the prevalence of contractual "abortion clauses" in commercial surrogacy agreements, state-level constitutional amendment…