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Originally Posted by charles brough
Jane's female fetus has aborted and it is decided she can never become pregnant again. She and her husband want their child anyway and have the money to do it. Specialists remove egg cells from the fetus, fertilize them by the husband and impregnate a surrogate mother with the fertilized eggs. It grows full term and a healthy baby is born.
Who is the mother?
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Is the fetus' father the father of the fetus' baby? Or did they find another father? I know that is not what you are asking, but it might be hard to find dates for an aborted fetus, much less a man willing to make a commitment. The other alternative is of course incest, or at least inbreeding, which leads to its own issues.
Disregarding who the father of the fetus' children is, the biological parent would be the fetus, even though it would never be born to see its own offspring.
The parent is whoever takes responsibility for raising the child. Birth is a legal matter of custody. I am not sure if the grandparents would have the legal authority to use the eggs from the fetus. It is indeed a complex scenario.
Bill
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