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Their Son Died. Months Later, Woman, 54, Has Baby From 22-Year-Old Embryo

Christina Rapti-Tzelepi, 54, gave birth to a healthy baby girl in Greece using embryos frozen 22 years earlier after the couple lost their son George in a car accident in October 2025. Due to Greece's age limit of 54 for IVF treatment, the couple had to proceed quickly and are now advocating for changes to the law to allow older women to undergo IVF.

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Is Surrogacy a New Form of Slavery? UN Official Asked to Decide

A group of international organizations has petitioned a United Nations special rapporteur to recognize surrogacy as a contemporary form of slavery, arguing that it treats the child as an object of a contract and fits the 1926 Slavery Convention's definition of slavery. Surrogacy is banned in several countries and heavily regulated in others, with debates focusing on ethical concerns, legal recognition of children born via surrogacy, and the rights and protections of surrogates, especially in the United States where laws vary by state.

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