Thursday, August 7, 2008

The First Test Tube Orphan

"[The first test tube orphan] came about when a Japanese couple got divorced, after paying a surrogate mother in India to give birth to their child, who was conceived using in vitro fertilisation.

Since the split, Yuki Yamada, the baby girl's biological mother who was due to adopt her, is no longer interested, nor is the surrogate mother who carried the child. And, as a single man, Ikufumi Yamada is not legally allowed to adopt the 11-day old baby. So, she remains in the hospital in Jaipur City where she was born. Mr Yamada's mother is looking after the baby in hospital, but cannot take her out of India without adoption papers and a passport."

Source: New Scientist

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