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“Yesterday I learned that Hayden passed away. Most people love and know Hayden from the show "Heroes" but I got to know Hayden as a real hero for risking her own life to save the lives of tens of thousands of small cetaceans.

In 2007 Hayden accomplished something activists had been trying to do for decades, and it's largely because of her bravery that dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan was put on the map.”

“That's what Hayden did. She stood in harm's way in a fishing town in Japan, at real risk to her own career and safety, because she understood that her fame was the one thing that could make people look. And they did. Her bravery did what activists had spent decades trying to do. It put Taiji on the map. It became part of a documentary that won an Oscar. It became a shift for an entire country.

Dolphin and porpoise killings dropped by tens of thousands a year, and Japanese schoolchildren stopped being fed dolphin meat laced with mercury.

That's the Hayden I got to know. An incredibly brave individual that changed the course of history. Rest in peace Hayden.”

The rundown:

⁠Alaskan nurse McKenna West was hired to be the surrogate for LA-based biological parents, Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar.
⁠At her 20-week checkup, the unborn was found to have hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a rare, life-threatening heart condition.
⁠The biological parents wanted to enact the abortion clause in their surrogacy contract and end the pregnancy after consulting with doctors about the diagnosis. The couple claimed West agreed with the decision to end the pregnancy after the diagnosis but then changed her mind and cut off contact.
⁠McKenna West contacted Christian, anti-abortion groups, who flew her from Alaska to Texas to give birth. She has stated that if she did not have the abortion, the biological parents planned to not provide the child with life saving care, a claim they dispute.
⁠Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intervened. A judge in Dallas ordered two hospitals to provide life-sustaining care and that the baby remain in Texas until at least a hearing in late August.
⁠McKenna West gave birth to the baby this past Wednesday, naming him Gabriel.
⁠The biological parents were granted a temporary restraining order that blocks West from asserting any legal authority over the baby. Stripping her of any decision-making about the infant’s medical care and bars her from representing herself as a parent. They are with the baby in Dallas as he receives life saving medical care. They have named him Rumi.
⁠West and her lawyer are planning a court battle to become the legal parent of the baby. Their case hinges on the belief that if you give birth to a child in Texas, it’s your child. They plan to take their challenge all the way to the Supreme Court.
⁠The biological parents, Gilker and Ahmed, are distraught that McKenna West and Ken Paxton have turned their family tragedy into political theater.

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