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Twins' registration nixed over surrogacy
Yomiuri Shimbun August 14, 2004
A family court turned down a complaint
filed by a couple against a municipality that rejected
their application to register twins born to them by an
American surrogate mother, it was learned Saturday.
This is the first time a Japanese
court has ruled on the relationship between mother and
child in relation to surrogacy. The couple plans to
appeal to the Osaka High Court.
The family court in the city where the
couple lives rejected the complaint on the grounds that
the wife did not provide eggs to the surrogate mother or
give birth to the twins.
The court said, "Under the law,
offspring born to a married couple should only have a
parental bond with the woman who gave birth to them,
from an objective and definitive point of view."
The couple lives in the Kansai region
and underwent fertility treatment, but failed to
conceive. The couple then signed a contract with a U.S.
company that helped them find a surrogate mother three
years ago.
Eggs from an Asian-American woman were
fertilized with the husband's sperm via in vitro
fertilization and then implanted in the womb of another
American woman. The twins were born in autumn 2002.
The wife said: "The twins' birth
certificates already have been registered in the United
States, so why can't it be done in Japan? It's so
disappointing."
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