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Giving birth to my granddaughter so my son can have a child
An American woman has given birth to her own grand-daughter so that her gay son and his husband can have a child. Cecile Eledge who's sixty-one and from Nebraska had the baby in March. The child was conceived through in vitro fertilisation using sperm from her son and his husband's sister served as the egg donor. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Newsday caught up with one of the parents ,Matthew Eledge.
(Picture: Baby Uma Louise with her parents, Matthew Eledge and Elliot Dougherty and her grandmother, Cecile Eledge. Credit: ARIEL PANOWICZ / HTTP://ARIELFRIED.COM/)
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