「出産女性が母」法が成立　出自知る権利、２年で結論

　不妊治療で卵子提供などにより生まれた子の親子関係を定める民法特例法が４日の衆院本会議で、共産党以外の賛成多数で可決、成立した。第三者からの卵子提供で出産した女性を「母」、第三者からの精子提供を受け妻が出産することに同意した夫を「父」と定めた。
　自身も卵子提供を受け出産した経験を持つ野田聖子自民党幹事長代行は成立後、国会内で記者団に「民法上で特例を認め、法的に（親子関係を）安定させることで、次の問題（の議論）に入る土台をつくった」と法制定の意義を強調した。
　生まれた子の「出自を知る権利」や、代理出産をめぐる規制の在り方など、積み残した課題については、付則で「おおむね２年」をめどに検討し、必要な法的措置を講じると明記した。（2020/12/04-23:33）

The Diet, Japan's parliament, has endorsed a special rule under the Civil Code to clarify legal parent-child relationships for children born through fertility treatment, such as with egg or sperm donation.
   The special rule was approved by a majority vote at a plenary meeting of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, on Friday with support from parties excluding the Japanese Communist Party. It cleared the House of Councillors, the upper chamber, last month.
   Under the special rule, a woman who gives birth to a child using a donated egg is recognized as the legal mother. A husband who consents to his wife giving birth with sperm donated by another man is acknowledged as the legal father.
   "We've laid the foundation for starting debates on next issues by legally stabilizing parent-child relationships through the approval of the Civil Code special rule," Seiko Noda, active secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, told reporters after the Diet authorization of the rule. Noda has given birth to a child with an egg from another woman.
   An additional clause to the special rule stipulates that issues, including the right of children to know the origin of their birth and regulations for surrogate births, should be discussed over around two years and necessary legal measures should be taken.