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A Baby in China Was Born 4 Years After His Parents Died

A Chinese boy is born years after his parents’ deaths. Reproductive technology brings about new lives — and new laws.

A Baby in China Was Born 4 Years After His Parents Died
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It’s a tragic situation when a child is orphaned virtually upon birth, but in a first-of-its-kind birth in China recently, a newborn was born an orphan four years after his parents died.

The baby’s parents, Shen Jie and Liu Xi, had hoped for a child, but had encountered problems conceiving. So they created several embryos in preparation for IVF, which were stored at a Nanjing hospital in deep freeze. Then, five days before one of the fertilized embryos was scheduled to be implanted, the couple was killed in a car accident in 2013.

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