Japanese mother of boy born by surrogacy calls it 'dream come true:

TOKYO —

The mother of a boy born through host surrogacy, a practice that remains controversial in Japan without legal authorization, expressed her joy Wednesday and called the experience ‘‘a dream come true.’‘
 


‘‘My long-time dream has finally come true,’’ the 27-year-old woman said at a press conference in Tokyo, where her 53-year-old mother who gave birth to the boy for her daughter was also present.
 
‘‘It was incredible when I saw the baby (in the womb) using ultrasound-echo equipment in the hospital,’’ said the woman, who had a tumor in her womb removed when she was 16 months old.
   


In September last year, a fertile egg was implanted into her mother and the boy was born in May. Since the boy is registered as the birth mother’s child at present, efforts are under way to register him as an adopted child of his biological parents.
   


The issue of host surrogacy is controversial in Japan and babies born using the practice are usually registered as adopted children of their biological parents.
 
The Science Council of Japan has effectively banned the practice of host surrogacy in a report issued in April last year, but left some room for women with a problem in their wombs to have a baby through surrogacy under supervision by public authorities. But no progress has been made since then in debates on the issue.
 

Yahiro Netsu, head of Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, where the baby was born, said he intends to set up an organization designed to urge the government to develop a legal system that would reflect the wishes of women in similar situations.

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