Word: crispina
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...ruling meant that biological parents Crispina and Mark Calvert of Orange County, Calif., could finally fill out the birth certificate for their son Christopher Michael, which has remained blank since the boy's birth on Sept. 19. The surrogate mother, nurse Anna Johnson of Garden Grove, Calif., vowed to appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary, to gain custody. "I'm in a state of deep mourning for my son," she said...
Johnson, however, is biologically unrelated to the Calverts' baby, who was conceived by joining Mark's sperm and Crispina's egg in a Petri dish. (Crispina was unable to carry a baby because of a partial hysterectomy.) The fertilized embryo was implanted in Johnson's uterus last January...
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