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Jul 2023
41m 49s

Modern family: I had my dead son’s baby ...

The Observer
About this episode

Spanish celebrity Ana Obregón shocked the world when she announced that she had a child via surrogate, using a donor egg and the sperm of her deceased son. Her story takes us to the new frontiers of fertility, where technology challenges our ideas of family, motherhood and the law.


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