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Latest Surrogacy News
12 Nov
2003 02:34:25 GMT
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TOKYO, Nov 12 (Reuters) - A
Japanese couple looked set on Wednesday to win their battle
for citizenship for twin boys born to a surrogate mother in
the United States a year ago.
The Japanese couple, who
are in their fifties, turned to an American surrogate mother
after various fertility treatments had failed, domestic
media said.
After refusing to accept
the Japanese couple's application to register the babies as
their own last week, the Justice Ministry then said it would
consider registering them as the offspring of the Japanese
man and the U.S. surrogate mother on the basis of a
California court ruling.
This would allow the
children, who are living in Japan as registered foreigners,
to be granted Japanese citizenship, a ministry official
said. The boys already have U.S. citizenship.
"The initial application
contradicted the facts of the case by saying that the
children were born to the Japanese couple," the official
said.
He added that the Japanese
couple would need to adopt the babies to create a legal
relationship between them and the Japanese woman.
This is the first such case
in Japan, where surrogate births arranged through third
parties are banned. Japan's Society of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology also bans its members from assisting in
surrogate births.
A government panel recently
recommended that surrogate mothers, rather than the women
who make a contract with them to give birth, be recognised
as legal parents.
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