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Though the elderly couple is happy, their joy came at a price.

A 70-year-old woman overcame an infertility with the help of several dead babies and one test tube baby.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Daljinder Kaur and her husband Mohinder Singh Gill spent nearly fifty years of marriage unable to conceive.

Finally, at roughly seventy-years-old, Kaur's age is not known as she has no birth certificate, Kaur told her husband she would have a child, even if she had to do so on her own.

Gill explained a family feud kept the couple from focusing on their "dream" of parenthood.

Kaur told Gill she was going to the National Fertility and Test Tube Baby Centre in Haryana, India, and that he could join her if he pleased.

Surprisingly, the Haryana fertility doctors agreed she was physically fit to give birth and decided to impregnate Kaur via in vitro fertilization.

Though the couple was ecstatic to finally start their little family, their child came at a high price.

In vitro fertilization, known as IVF, is an inorganic process that requires donor sperm meeting an egg in a petri dish, rather than within the fallopian tubes. Of course, to ensure the process results in a viable fertilized egg, several eggs are introduced to donor sperm and are fertilized - but only one is allowed to live.

The chosen egg, the one deemed most-likely to survive, is implanted in the womb and the others are destroyed.

Kaur and Gill were blessed with a son they named Arman, whom they love unconditionally and without any thought to the murdered children that led to his conception.

"I used to feel empty," Kaur told AFP. "There was so much loneliness. I feel blessed to be able to hold my own baby. I had lost hope of becoming a mother ever."

Kaur's pregnancy has led to several controversial issues, with Bina Vasan, a former president of the Indian Society for Assisted Reproduction, admitting, "This sends the wrong message to society ... We condemn such a practice."

Despite the ethics behind in vitro, Singh and Kaur are happy with their decision and believe, "God herd our prayers." Kaur added, "My life feels complete now."

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