Baby born four years after parents’ death in car crash

Surrogate mother from Laos gave birth to the boy after legal battle in China over use of frozen embryos

China
Surrogacy is illegal in China

A baby has been born in China, four years after both his parents were killed in a car accident.

The boy, called Tiantian - Sweetie in Mandarin - was born in a hospital in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, “after his grandparents won a year-long court battle to use a frozen embryo”, says China Daily. A surrogate mother from Laos gave birth to the child in December, according to Chinese media reports.

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