J-Girls knock-up K-Girls for J-Kids

[kurohinge1]

[SIZE="5"]Korea's Surrogate Mother Industry Draws Japanese [/SIZE]

. . . According to the law, selling eggs is illegal, but there are no regulations for surrogate mothers. That is why the industry has no problems luring cash-strapped young women. Surrogate mothers are paid W30-40 million (US$1=W956), while egg donors get W3-4 million. One result has been that more and more Japanese infertile Japanese women seek Korean surrogates.

In 2003, Japan completely banned surrogate pregnancies and industry brokering. One Tokyo-based fertility clinic posted a notice on its web site saying, "The price of implanting a surrogate pregnancy in Korea is about half that of the U.S., while the level of treatment is about the same. For more detailed information, please call or write." The going price listed for the procedure is 7 million yen, or around W56 million.

Grand National Party lawmaker Bahk Jae-wan on Monday published Ministry of Health and Welfare materials which say there are 13 Internet groups on major domestic portal sites related to surrogate mothering, 65 related ads, and 2,295 users registered to the groups. "With the lax regulations on surrogate pregnancies in Korea, the number of Japanese finding surrogate mothers here is rising. My concern is that we could be reduced to Japan's womb colony" . . . more

"And this is your surrogate mother - Sum-Yung-Woom "

[GuyJean]

"And this is your surrogate mother - Sum-Yung-Woom "

Naaaiiice.. Cheesy, but nice.

Did anyone see the story in the news about the Japanese surragate mother actually being the mother of the woman needing a surrogate? Can't recall the details at the moment, but I think they were all arrested..

GJ

[kurohinge1]

And in this related story, lies "the sting in the tail" for those using FG surrogates:

[SIZE="4"]Woman gives birth to grandchild[/SIZE]

A Japanese woman in her 50s gave birth to her own grandchild last year, using an egg from her daughter and sperm from her son-in-law, a doctor has revealed. It was the first time a woman has acted as a surrogate mother for her daughter in Japan, local media reported.

The case is set to stir debate in Japan where surrogate births are opposed by the government and a key medical group.

Japan's justice ministry also views the woman who gives birth as a child's mother - not the biological mother.

This legal position has led a Japanese celebrity couple to go to the courts to try to win the right to register twins born to a surrogate mother as their own children. Their case is continuing.

Adopted

Yahiro Netsu, the head of the Suwa maternity clinic in Nagano, told a news conference that the woman gave birth last year, Reuters reported.

She had agreed to in vitro fertilisation and to act as a surrogate mother because her daughter had had her uterus removed due to cancer and was therefore unable to bear children.

Both the mother and child were reported to be in good health.

Dr Netsu said the woman had first registered the baby as her own and then the child was adopted by her daughter and son-in-law.

The doctor, who has helped other couples to have children through surrogate mothers, called on the government and the medical authorities to review their stance against surrogacy.

Surrogate births involve removing an egg to be fertilised and then implanting it in another woman who carries the baby to birth.

[Buraku]

Panel calls for law to prohibit commercial surrogate births
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080308TDY01305.htm