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04-05-2007, 04:01 PM
Mukai ruling stirs debate / Highlights gaps between law, reality over surrogate births
Atsuko Kobayashi / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
The Supreme Court's ruling Friday on twin sons born through surrogate birth did not address whether the medical practice should be allowed, but did strongly call for legislative action for reproductive assistance medicine.
The ruling said Aki Mukai's request to register the boys as her children by birth could not be accepted under the current law. The 3-year-old boys were born through an American surrogate mother using Mukai's eggs and her husband's sperm.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070325TDY03003.htm
Atsuko Kobayashi / Yomiuri Shimbun Staff Writer
The Supreme Court's ruling Friday on twin sons born through surrogate birth did not address whether the medical practice should be allowed, but did strongly call for legislative action for reproductive assistance medicine.
The ruling said Aki Mukai's request to register the boys as her children by birth could not be accepted under the current law. The 3-year-old boys were born through an American surrogate mother using Mukai's eggs and her husband's sperm.
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070325TDY03003.htm