In China, a child was born four years after the death of parents
'12.04.2018'
Source: Air force
In China, a child was born four years after his parents died in a car accident. He was carried by a surrogate mother, reports Air force.
Shortly before the fatal road accident in 2013, a man and a woman froze several embryos in the hope of conceiving a child through artificial insemination.
After a car accident, the parents of the deceased couple had long sought in the courts permission to use embryos. In December, a surrogate mother from Laos gave birth to a boy, Chinese media reported this week.
Newspaper Beijing News, the first to write about this case, told about the legal tests that the grandparents of the newborn had to go through because of the lack of judicial precedent before they had the child born.
Embryo Rights
During a car accident, embryos were stored in a hospital in the Chinese city of Nanjing, frozen at minus 196 degrees in a tank with liquid nitrogen.
After lengthy legal proceedings, the court transferred the rights to use them to the four parents of the deceased couple.
According to media reports, there had previously been no such cases of parents inheriting their children’s frozen embryos.
But the tests of future grandparents did not end there. Embryos could be taken out of Nanjing Hospital only if they were received by another hospital.
However, due to legal ambiguity around the embryos in China, it was difficult to find another medical institution willing to take part in it.
In addition, surrogacy is prohibited in China. Relatives had to take the embryos abroad - this was the only way to solve the problem.
Citizenship issue
As a result, the parents of the deceased couple decided to use the services of a surrogate motherhood agency in Laos, where it is legal.
But even here a problem arose - not a single airline agreed to accept a thermos with liquid nitrogen on board. The priceless cargo had to be transported by car.
In Laos, the embryos were placed in the womb of a surrogate mother, and in December 2017, a boy was born. He was called Tientian.
The problem is that Tientian was born not in Laos, but in China, where his surrogate mother arrived on a simple tourist visa. Since none of the boy's parents was left alive, all four grandparents of the child had to undergo a DNA test to prove that this was their grandson, and that both his parents were Chinese, which means that the child was a Chinese citizen.
