Abstract
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Stories of assisted reproduction from around the world are ubiquitous in
the mass media.1 In March 2013, a Chinese couple, Shen Jie and Liu Xi,
were killed in a car crash, five days before they were due to have embryos
implanted through in vitro fertilization (IVF). After a legal battle, both sets of
parents of the deceased couple were able to access the frozen embryos stored
in a hospital in Nanjing. Through a surrogacy agency, two embryos were
implanted into the womb of a Lao woman who traveled to China on a tourist
visa and gave birth to a baby boy, four years after the death of the intended
parents. The grandparents are now raising the child (Ramzy 2018).