Baby is born in China four years after parents died in car crash

Re:Baby is born in China four years after parents died in ca... by seba_dos1 on Thursday April 12, 2018 @08:51AM (#16820324)

As much as the grandparent's behavior might be selfish, there's no such thing as "not meant to exist". If the car crash happened right after the birth, would it be more "meant to exist"? By whom, the now-dead parents? Why does it matter?

Actually, to the contrary, the parents originally meant this life to exist. Somebody then explicitly still meant this life to exist even despite of the difficulties of the original parents being dead.

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Re:Baby is born in China four years after parents died in ca... by BartBoch on Thursday April 12, 2018 @09:13AM (#16820530)

Exactly - THE PARENTS. Look at this bit: "they will tell him his parents are overseas" - they will mentally destroy this kid.

The embryo was his parents, not grandparents. There was no actual will granting them control over that. They just decided to claim it anyway.

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Re:Baby is born in China four years after parents died in ca... by magic_beans on Thursday April 12, 2018 @09:17AM (#16820569)

Literally the next paragraph: “We will tell him when he’s older.”

The overseas lie is just for when he’s young. As soon as he’s old enough to understand, the grandparents will tell him.

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Re:Baby is born in China four years after parents died in ca... by BartBoch on Thursday April 12, 2018 @09:26AM (#16820650)

And this makes it right? What right do they have to create this situation? Care to explain?

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Re:Baby is born in China four years after parents died in ca... by magic_beans on Thursday April 12, 2018 @09:52AM (#16820887)

Do you also believe infertile couples should be barred from fertility treatments? Or that disabled people, poor people, or single people have no right to reproduce?

These grandparents were grieving, but that doesn’t mean they won’t be fit to raise their grandchild.

In the end, the court decided these grandparents DID have the right to a grandchild. Your opinion or mine doesn’t matter.

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Re:Baby is born in China four years after parents died in ca... by BartBoch on Thursday April 12, 2018 @10:07AM (#16821039)

Apples to oranges. I never said or tried to imply that - it is your words.

I clearly implied that the issue here is, that grandparents took the embryo, hired a woman to give birth to it with no will or blessing from their kids. The embryo was not theirs to decide and people that could make this decision were dead.

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