Controversial Case of Woman Giving Birth to Deceased Lover’s Child Sparks Legal Battle in China

A shocking incident happened in China, where a woman became pregnant with a frozen embryo and gave birth to a child with her deceased lover, and then asked him to inherit her property from his wife.

According to Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post (SCMP) on the 26th (local time), Mr. Leng, from Guangdong Province in southeast China, recently filed a property division lawsuit against Mr. Wen’s wife , a man who died in a lawsuit. car accident three years ago.

She came forward claiming that she had a relationship with Won in the past and gave birth to a child 11 months after he died. How was this possible?

Before that, Won died in a car accident in January 2021. Mr. Leng said that before Mr. Wen’s death, several of his eggs that were fertilized by his sperm were frozen in a private hospital. Afterwards, Mr. Leng said, after Mr. Wen died, he implanted the embryo himself, and in December that year, he held a boy named Xiaoyun in his arms.

Mr Leng filed a lawsuit against his wife in August last year, claiming that Xiaoyun was entitled to inherit some of her biological father’s assets, including real estate and company shares. deceased, Mr. Wen. It is said that Won’s wife did not know that Leng had fathered a child through embryo transfer surgery until the trial.

But the trial did not go as Mr. Leng wanted. The court ruled that “artificial feeding or embryo implantation after Won’s death without the consent of the bereaved family is a violation of public order and cannot be legally protected.” Ling’s lawsuit was dismissed because it was held that it could not be proven that the embryo was fertilized by Won and that Won had given permission for the child to be born with his own sperm.

In this regard, lawyer Feng Qinjuan from Tahota Law Office in Beijing said, “According to the Civil Code enacted in 2021, a fetus living in the mother’s body has the right to inheritance and gifts ,” but he added, “But, it’s not clear. do frozen embryos have the same rights.” “It is not specified in the law,” he said.

This incident was reported in the local media and became a hot topic on social media. Netizens said, “This is shocking. “The woman will do that for money.” “I feel sorry for her son. Thousands of comments were left, including, “You gave birth to be a bargaining chip.”