A baby girl born of an Indian surrogate mother has been allowed to join her Japanese biological father after an Indian Supreme Court ruling.
Three-month-old Manji was tied up in a bureaucratic nightmare of commercial surrogacy after Manji’s father, Ikufumi Yamada, 48, from whose sperm an Indian woman was impregnated, and his then-wife Yuki, 45, divorced.
Under Indian law, a couple must legally adopt the baby after birth before taking it overseas, but India bars single men from adopting, so the child was denied travel documents.
Surrogate mothers in India, typically uneducated poor women, are paid between $4,500 and $5,000 for their service, roughly half of what surrogacy clinics receive from clients. | |
