This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th.

Anti-abortion activists and lawmakers in Texas are pressing to limit or even outlaw surrogacy, a new step toward restricting major forms of infertility treatment.

Surrogacy, though far from common, has entered the national spotlight this summer, the result of an explosive case in which an Alaska woman named McKenna West - who had been hired to carry a pregnancy for a California-based couple - traveled to Texas to seek medical care after refusing to have an abortion.