On March 20, 2013, Hu Xingxian's family in Yixing, Jiangsu Province, celebrated her birthday around a warm candle. After blowing out the candles, Liu Xi, Hu Xingxian's only daughter, mysteriously rushed to her mother's side: "Mom, I will tell you one more good news, that matter has come to fruition." ”
Hu Xingxian was stunned, and then touched Liu Xi's head with pity, and then smiled and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes: "It can be said that it has become, my poor daughter, and the suffering during this time has not been in vain." Liu Xi smiled and leaned on her mother's shoulder: "Yes, the day is set for 5 days, and you don't have to worry about me anymore." ”
The big stone in Hu Xingxian's heart was completely put down, and he happily ate the cake.
After the meal, the daughter and her son-in-law prepared to leave, Hu Xingxian packed a large bag of things and put it in the child's car, and then took his wife's hand and watched them leave unwillingly. At this time, Hu Xingxian did not know that this side had become the last side of their mother and daughter to see, and she would also be sued by her own relatives shortly after the death of her daughter...
Desperate old man who has lost his independence
After sending the children away, Hu Xingxian suddenly remembered something, turned his head and ran home to pack up his things. The wife looked at her hurriedly and hurriedly followed: "Why are you running so fast?" Old arms and old legs, pay attention to the body. ”
Hu Xingxian glanced at him: "You are only old, I am still very young, and I am still waiting to hold my grandson." Hearing this, my wife became interested: "What? That's it. Hu Xingxian smiled happily twice: "Yes, I will go to the transplant on the 25th, and we will soon be able to become my grandfather and grandmother." ”
Daughter Liu Xi is beautiful in appearance, has a successful career, and has a good relationship with her son-in-law Shen Jie, because Shen Jie is the only son, her in-laws love Wu and Wu, and she is also very fond of her daughter. Originally, her daughter's life was perfect, but she and her son-in-law were married for several years without getting pregnant, they ran a lot of hospitals, found a lot of treatment methods, and her daughter's stomach was always moving.
The two pairs of old people looked in the eyes and were anxious in their hearts, and this matter gradually became a piece of Hu Xingxian's heart disease.
Later, the two young people discussed and decided to go to IVF. Hu Xingxian inquired around, and his heart trembled with shock. Ivy infestation requires constantly injecting hormones into the woman's body, so that the woman's body changes, from only one follicle per month to many follicles in a short period of time, and then extracted from it and artificial insemination. In this process, the woman has to endure great pain.
Liu Xi is the only daughter of Hu Xingxian and his wife, who has been pampered since childhood, and breaking a piece of oil skin will make the family nervous for half a day, and she has never suffered such a crime. Hu Xingxian was worried that she couldn't stand it and stopped her daughter from going, but her daughter very much wanted to have a child of her own. Hu Xingxian could not help the child, and could only go with her.
Every time he watched his daughter inject drugs into her body, watching her daughter almost bite her lips because of the pain of the drug reaction, and even ascites, Hu Xingxian felt pain in her heart.
Today, the hospital has extracted the follicles and sperm of her daughter and son-in-law, and completed ivory fertilization, making several embryos frozen. The daughter has finally survived, and now, just waiting for 5 days, she can choose a top-quality embryo to transfer into the body, and then patiently conceive her own child. How could this make Hu Xingxian unhappy?
Hu Xingxian was very excited, and discussed with his wife the gender of his grandson in the middle of the night, the name, and what they would prepare after the child was born. The more the two old men talked, the happier they became, and they couldn't sleep until late at night. Until the early hours of the morning, Hu Xingxian finally could not resist the call of the biological clock, and slept in a confused way, and as a result, shortly after falling asleep, she was awakened by a harsh telephone ringing.
Hu Xingxian did not move, and his wife slowly climbed up and answered the phone. After a while, the other end of the phone hung up, but the old partner did not lie down again. Hu Xingxian felt strange, and when he looked up, he found his old wife sitting on the edge of the bed, his body was hunched over, and the whole person seemed to have been sucked out of all his spirits.
Hu Xingxian had a bad premonition in his heart and asked, "What's wrong?" It took a while for her to hear her wife's voice choking: "My daughter is gone." ”
When Hu Xingxian and his wife rushed to the hospital, the sky had slowly brightened, but the hearts of the second elder of the Liu family and the second elder of the Shen family sank into the deeper darkness.
A few hours ago, Liu Xi and Shen Xie had a car accident and crashed into a tree on the side of the road. There was no monitoring on all sides, and it was not known what happened at that time, the only thing that was known was that Liu Xi was seriously injured and died on the spot. Shen Jie was not much better than her, her body was full of blood, and she was still rescuing her.
Hu Xingxian looked at the corpse covered in white cloth, how could she not imagine that it was a few hours ago still helping her celebrate her birthday, laughing and saying that her mother no longer had to worry about her daughter. This child, obviously so vivid and beautiful, how can he suddenly not even move?
Hu Xingxian cried so much that he almost fainted. On the other hand, Shen Jie's parents, Shen Xinnan and his wife, also watched their son swallow after 5 days of hard work. Suddenly, the sky of both families collapsed.
The only hope
Since the death of their two children, the two families have been in a fog of sorrow. The four old men worked hard to get their spirits up, found a well-landscaped cemetery for the children, and buried them together. In the process, Shen Xinnan insisted on erecting a wordless monument to the two children, and he knew that the children still had one more thing to worry about. Only when the dust settled on this matter would he engrave the names of the two children.
Shen Xinnan found the Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital where his son and daughter-in-law stored the embryos, hoping that the hospital would allow him to retrieve the embryos. To Shen Xinnan's disappointment, the hospital rejected his request. Shen Xinnan took a step back and asked the hospital whether it could preserve these embryos for a long time, but the hospital also refused.
Nanjing Gulou Hospital said that Shen Jie and his wife had signed a contract when they stored the embryos, and the hospital only kept the embryos for them for one year. After Shen Jie and his wife have completed the transplant operation, or after the preservation period has passed, if they do not continue to pay the preservation fee, the hospital has the right to discard the embryos.
Shen Xinnan thought about handing over the money first, although these four embryos may not be able to become human again, as long as they stay there well, it is a great comfort for himself. However, this move of his was rejected by the hospital again, and the hospital only accepted the payment of Shen Jie and his wife themselves, and did not accept Shen Xinnan's money.
The son and daughter-in-law are dead, where is it possible to pay again? In doing so, isn't it obvious that once the shelf life is up, the embryos will be completely destroyed? Such a result, Shen Xinnan naturally could not agree.
When the son and daughter-in-law were alive, they paid a lot for these embryos, and now that the son has died, these four embryos have become the only remaining bloodline of their Shen family, and they are their last hope, how can Shen Xinnan be willing to give up? However, no matter how many times he ran to Nanjing, the hospital was such a result, and when he got to the back, the hospital was even impatient to receive Shen Xinnan again, repeatedly stopping him outside the gate.
Hu Xingxian, who was in his hometown, also heard about his family's running to Nanjing. During this time, Hu Xingxian has been indulging in the sadness of her daughter's death, often wanting to live lightly, almost forgetting that her daughter left frozen embryos for them before leaving. This is the continuation of her daughter's life, Hu Xingxian and Shen Xinnan have the same idea, no matter what they pay, they must leave this hope behind.
For a time, both families of old people went from demoralized to scrappy. Hu Xingxian called Shen Xinnan: "These 4 embryos were left by my daughter, and our family should also have a share." ”
Shen Xinnan disagreed, embryos are fragile, whether they can be cultivated or not is not certain, where can they get points? What's more, the hospital simply did not agree to return the embryos to them. For a while, Shen Xinnan was also a little angry: "Your daughter married our family, that is our Shen family, what she left behind is naturally also our Shen family's things, I can't give it to you." ”
Hu Xingxian was extremely angry and quarreled with Shen Xinnan on the spot. Since the two children fell in love, the two families have been intimate and have never quarreled so much. Hu Xingxian was angry and sad, but Shen Xinnan thought of a good way to solve the problem from this quarrel with his relatives.
Confrontation in court
Soon after, Mr. and Mrs. Hu Xingxian received a summons from the court, and Shen Xinnan sued them in court in the name of competing for embryos. At this time, Shen Xinnan called and said, "Dear family, you don't have to care about anything, when it's time for the court to come." ”
Hu Xingxian pondered slightly and understood Shen Xinnan's meaning. The hospital has always been very tough, no matter how much they ask for it, they are unwilling to return the embryos, and even turn them away. In this case, if they continue to follow them, neither Liu Shen nor the liu shen family will get any benefits.
Instead of this, it is better for the two families to make trouble in court with such a confrontational attitude, and if the Shen family wins the lawsuit, the embryo will return to the Shen family, and if the Shen family loses the lawsuit, the embryo will fall to the Liu family. In any case, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital will not be able to obtain ownership of the embryo, which is good for both families.
What's more, they have already gone to court in order to get the embryos, and before the court starts, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital must ensure the safety of the embryos and cannot discard the embryos at will. It also gives both of them a little respite, so that they don't have to worry about the embryos being thrown away all the time.
On May 15, 2014, a year after Shen Jie's and his wife's death, the dispute over the right to inherit embryos began to be heard in the Yixing court in Jiangsu Province.
In court, Shen Xinnan proposed to inherit the property of his son and daughter-in-law after death, that is, the 4 embryos. Mr. and Mrs. Hu Xingxian also did not budge, saying that in the past, in order to respond to the call for family planning, they had only one daughter. Now that she has lost her daughter in old age, she deserves a little care and the bloodline left by her daughter.
In court, the representative of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital was also summoned here as the third person in this case because he was the keeper of the embryo and was unwilling to return the embryo. In the statement, the representative also explained the reasons why the hospital was reluctant to hand over the embryos:
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Our policy states that embryos cannot be transferred, bought or sold, and cannot be given away. What's more, as a substance that can be bred into life, the frozen embryo of IVF is not easy to define whether its attributes are human or material, and if it is a human, then it cannot be inherited by the family of the deceased like an object. Moreover, embryos are very special, and the only way they can survive is to be surrogacy, and surrogacy is illegal in our country, and we are even less likely to hand over the embryos easily.
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In the end, the Yixing People's Court rejected Shen Xinnan's request based on various considerations. According to the idea, embryos are a special substance that can evolve into life, and they cannot be transferred and inherited like ordinary things. Even for Shen Jie and his wife, they were allowed to cultivate embryos because they were for reproductive purposes.
As a result, these embryos can only be used by two couples for procreation, and even their own other rights over these embryos are restricted. Now that the two couples are dead, they can no longer fulfill their reproductive purposes, and their families naturally cannot inherit the rights that are already restricted.
Keeping the bloodline is full of hardships
The verdict of the first instance gave the 4 elderly people a very heavy blow. After returning home that day, Shen Xinnan found that her wife had become something wrong, she was always sitting alone at the dinner table and talking in one direction, just like when her daughter-in-law and son were still alive.
Sometimes the wife suddenly returns to God, remembering that they have died, the mood will become very low. Shen Xinnan bumped into his wife who was crying on the floor several times in his son's daughter-in-law's room, and many times, Shen Xinnan could only accompany his wife and sit on the floor with her until dawn.
In order not to let them continue to be sad, the relatives of the Shen family have already emptied the room of Shen Jie and his wife, and there is no trace of their life here. But as parents, every bit of their children is deeply imprinted on their hearts, even if the whole home is emptied, they can still see the children's shadows in the room.
Shen Xinnan felt that he could not go on like this any longer, his wife needed a spiritual pillar, and he himself needed it. Now, if it weren't for the fact that he always had those embryos in his heart, I'm afraid he would have already been like his wife, and he wouldn't have thought about life at all.
No, you can't watch the hospital throw away those embryos according to the agreement! This is the last meaning of their old two lives.
Shen Xinnan began to seek help everywhere and continued to appeal. He had already thought that if the Intermediate Court could not do it, he would go to the High Court, to Beijing, and he would always get a judgment with a human touch. Under his efforts, this matter began to get bigger and bigger, and it also attracted the attention of many people.
On July 2, 2014, the Intermediate People's Court of Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, accepted the case. Since this case has already caused a sensation, the Intermediate People's Court is very concerned about this case. However, this is the first case of embryo competition in the mainland, and there are no relevant provisions in the law, and the Intermediate People's Court can only rely on some legal wisdom, refer to the national policies related to embryos, and combine the current relevant facts to make a judgment.
At the same time, the Court also collected the opinions of many professionals and many caring people on the Internet who cared about the case, and made a final judgment after careful consideration.
During the trial, the Court argued that Mr. and Mrs. Shen Jie had indeed signed a contract with the hospital, which stated that the hospital had the right to discard the embryos after the couple had completed the transfer or exceeded the retention period. However, Shen Jie and his wife suddenly died in a car accident, that is, an unexpected situation that was not foreseen when both parties signed the contract, in which case the hospital could not unilaterally dispose of the embryos according to the agreement in disregard of their wishes.
What's more, embryos are a special thing that can be cultivated into life, and even if they have not yet become life, they should be respected and protected as they deserve. At this time, the Shen and Liu families, who are most closely related to their genetics, are best able to assume the responsibility of caring for and protecting them.
Moreover, the two old people suddenly lost their beloved son and daughter, and the white-haired person sent the black-haired person, which is the most painful thing in life. In this way, the embryos that continue the two bloodlines have become their only spiritual sustenance and emotional comfort, and the legal theory is nothing more than human feelings, if they can supervise and dispose of the embryos, at least they can slightly soothe the pain of their loss of their children.
Therefore, in summary, the Intermediate People's Court finally decided to revoke the original judgment and give the Liu family and the Shen family the right to jointly supervise and dispose of the embryos.
The 4 old men wept with joy on the spot, as long as they had these two rights, then no one would be able to destroy these embryos without their consent. Hu Xingxian said with tears, "Thank you! With this hope, we can look forward to the day when we can get a grandchild, which saved the lives of 4 of us! ”
Surrogacy
Shen Xinnan has been doing business for many years and knows a little more. When he got home, he was looking around for the possibility of legal surrogacy in the country. Because of the big trouble between them, many people took this opportunity to secretly find Shen Xinnan, and they all said that they would be able to help him with a guarantee ticket.
Shen Xinnan was very happy, but after paying the money, he found that most of the people on the other side were scammers, and as soon as he got the money, he ran all the way and there was no news.
At this time, a bad news also came from Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital: although the hospital does not prevent them from taking the embryos away, if Shen Xinnan really wants to surrogate, he must find a person from the local court's enforcement court to pick it up, and they only accept the transfer of the embryos to the hospital, not to individuals. If Shen Xinnan wants to take the embryos, he must issue a certificate from another hospital before he can come and get them.
In our country, surrogacy is illegal, where is the hospital dare to open such a certificate? Shen Xinnan ran back and forth dozens of times, and none of them dared to pick up such a hot potato.
Just when Shen Xinnan felt that the mountains and rivers were exhausted, a man named Liu Baojun found him. Liu Baojun claimed to be the head of a surrogacy agency abroad and could help him. Shen Xinnan was deceived and did not dare to believe him easily. But Liu Baojun talked about surrogacy, and also made a careful plan, from how to issue a certificate to how to transfer embryos are particularly detailed.
With the help of Liu Baojun, Shen Xinnan successfully removed the embryos from Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital and transferred them to Laos. In 2017, Liu Baojun chose a healthy and beautiful woman in Laos to conceive a child, and they selected the two embryos of the best quality to start the transfer.
The 4 elderly people were nervous, the success rate of embryo transfer was only 50%, and if this time it failed, they were not sure if they had other chances. Fortunately, one of the two embryos successfully implanted, and the 4 old people relaxed their minds and looked at the photos taken by Liu Baojun every day to chat for comfort.
Liu Baojun also understands their feelings, and will do a physical examination for the surrogate mother every month, and send the results of the physical examination to Shen Xinnan. In this way, the child grew up in the belly of the surrogate mother day by day, and on December 9, 2017, the child was born, a boy, crying and shouting earth-shattering, very healthy.
After thinking about it, Hu Xingxian decided to name the child Sweet. Because this child ended the pain of their two families and gave them infinite sweetness. This child is very special, having been through hardships before being born, and was not able to see the world until 4 years after the death of his parents. What's more, without the efforts of his grandparents and grandparents, he would not have come to the human world at all. He is the mercy of jurisprudence when it encounters human nature, and it is also the courage of people to desperately bet after losing hope. He was a miracle.
However, this is just the story of their family. In January 2018, the second year after Sweet was born, Laos introduced a law prohibiting surrogacy, and another country where surrogacy was legal disappeared from the world. It's not a cruelty, on the contrary, it prevents Laotian women from renting out their wombs and objectifying themselves.
You know, from the perspective of the surrogate mother, she has been pregnant with a child for a year, and she has not looked at it for a few times before she is taken away, and she can't see her again in this life, what a cruel thing. If the child is unhealthy, the surrogate mother is more likely to hurt her body and not even get money. The child's fate is the most tragic, and it is likely to be destroyed like an object.
Therefore, although surrogacy has brought hope to the Liu Shen family, this matter is not worth advocating in essence. We have never been able to tolerate this legal sale of human organs, which is the biggest reason why our country prohibits surrogacy.