AUSTIN, Aug. 11 -- The Texas Attorney General issued the following press release:
Attorney General Ken Paxton has intervened in a Dallas County parentage case to protect the life of an unborn child who is expected to be born imminently with a serious but treatable heart condition. The Office of the Attorney General has also formally notified UT Southwestern Medical Center ("UT Southwestern") and Children's Medical Center of Dallas ("Dallas Children's") of their legal obligations to provide the baby with medically necessary, life-saving care upon birth.
The child, known as baby Gabriel, was diagnosed in utero with hypoplastic left heart syndrome ("HLHS"), a serious congenital heart condition. Treatment for HLHS typically involves three sta...