K-actress Lee Shi Young Reveals Pregnancy with Second Child Using Frozen Embryos After Divorce without Ex-Husband Consent
Hul, there is actually an ethical and moral dilemma story that exploded in K-ent today. K-actress Lee Shi Young, who announced four months ago in March 2025 of her divorce, has now revealed that she is pregnant and expecting a second child. She and her non-celeb businessman ex-husband were married for 8-years and have a young son together. Her second pregnancy was via IVF with formerly frozen embryos that were her egg fertilized with her then husband’s sperm. She said that the date was coming up for those embryos to be non-viable so she made the unilateral decision to implant it and got pregnant. This story is insane because she admitted her ex-husband did not agree to it. I guess it’s clear now what led to the divorce lol. The ex-husband side is saying that now she is pregnant he plans to do his duty as the father of this baby, because what else can he do the baby is a-coming whether he agreed or not. This is so wild that she can have a baby without the consent of the baby’s father, not sure if there are any laws she broke but its probably more an ethical wrongdoing on her part and probably some violation of the terms of the IVF clinic for implanting it without the consent of both parties. So much side-eyeing her here.
Very wrong…in all levels. I am surprised the clinic even allowed her to do so without the ex’s consent.
So many ethical implications for this kind of scenario. I feel like this is the kind of question that my law professor would have put in on the final exam as a policy question.
This is probably an unpopular opinion (and I hope I can articulate my thoughts properly and lovingly) but the bigger problem for me is the IVF—it allowed human life to be created outside of the womb.
The embryo IS life. This is their very very tiny baby already—“just” frozen and outside its mother. Discarding him/her after a determined “non-viability” date, at its core, is killing.
So it is beyond the matter of consent for me—the consent was given the day they agreed in the conception (egg + sperm, albeit outside of the womb). And I am glad the baby is now wanted, at least.
No, scientifically speaking, an embryo is not a baby. It’s a cluster of cells at a very early stage of development. I really wish people wouldn’t rely solely on personal beliefs or religious doctrine when making claims about biology, especially when those beliefs influence public policy and healthcare.
It’s dangerous when opinions about “life” override science. we’ve already seen real-world consequences, like women being denied necessary medical care in places with strict, belief-based laws. These laws are often rooted in outdated or inaccurate ideas about reproduction, and they can cost lives.
We should prioritize evidence-based understanding, especially when it comes to issues as serious as reproductive rights and medical ethics.
Actually, my masters was in law and medical ethics and snail articulated a brilliant point.
eJc is incorrectly conflating science, and her own personal beliefs and politics, to be the ethical and only view. Scientifically Snails is correct, that life does begin at conception, where life becomes viable outside a body, or legally is irrelevant. It is not a cluster of cells, anymore than you are just a cluster of cells. An embryo is the start of a continuum that produces life, and Snails point, embraces that biological fact, and is a perfectly valid viewpoint to hold.
Law, is a reflection of societal ethics – e.g are we a society that values the rights of an unborn child over a mother’s autonomy, or vice versa – lawmakers and voters must make a choice.
The fact that eJc uses such emotive language in her answer like ‘outdated/ inaccurate/religious-doctrine’ and empty phrases like ‘evidence-based’, merely shows that she has beliefs that run contrary to Snails views and is trying to frame the belief in the embryo as a human as a solely religious view. This argument just doesn’t make philosophically. There is no loss of humanity in between you as a fetus, and you as an adult. The argument must be framed not as killing an embryo, and by an extension a foetus, is fine because it’s not human, but as a contest between the rights of two people (an unborn child vs a mother), as almost all ethical questions are.
EJc’s views are valid, but they are articulated rudely.
How insane! I wonder in which country she did the procedure. This would be illegal where I live in Europe. Both party’s consent would be needed before implantation.
In Europe it is illegal. But I don’t know about local laws of whatever country where she did this.
Absolutely immoral though. That poor kid will find out at some point, yikes.
ughh diturbing. I guess with enough money you can change decisions of those clinics.. good luck to the baby and ex husband.
discarded embryo tugs at the heartstrings..