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Top court repeals order for registry of surrogate-born twins

TOKYO, Japan, Aug. 7 Kyodo - Japanese TV personality Aki Mukai (L) and former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada are pictured during a press conference on April 11, 2007, after the Supreme Court repealed in March a lower court ruling ordering a Tokyo ward office to accept on its registry twins born to the couple through an American surrogate mother. The decision by the top court finalized Shinagawa Ward's rejection to register the 2003 births of the boys.(Kyodo)

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Babies born via surrogate mother

TOKYO, Japan, July 31 Kyodo - Former pro wrestler Nobuhiko Takada and TV personality Aki Mukai hold up a piece of paper showing the names of their twin babies, born through a surrogate mother in the United States, during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2004.

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Surrogate arrangement for babies

TOKYO, Japan, July 31 Kyodo - Undated combined photo shows TV personality Aki Mukai and medical doctor Yahiro Netsu. Mukai's twin babies were born through a surrogate mother in the United States in 2003. Netsu said in 2001 his maternity clinic had made a surrogacy arrangement for a woman, becoming the first Japanese medical institution to officially announce such a procedure.(Kyodo)

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

Kimberly Guilfoyle speaks at a surrogate campaign event for former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Ankeny, Iowa on January 15, 2024. Photo by Julia Nikhinson/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

Supporters of former president Donald Trump watch an election advertisement on bar TV ahead of a surrogate campaign event for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Ankeny, Iowa on January 15, 2024. Photo by Julia Nikhinson/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

A property management employee removes lawn signs outside a surrogate campaign event for former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Ankeny, Iowa on January 15, 2024. Photo by Julia Nikhinson/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

Donald Trump Jr. looks on as Kimberly Guilfoyle speaks at a surrogate campaign event for former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Ankeny, Iowa on January 15, 2024. Photo by Julia Nikhinson/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

A man wears a "Trump Caucus Captain" hat at a surrogate campaign event for former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Ankeny, Iowa on January 15, 2024. Photo by Julia Nikhinson/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

A Trump campaign staff member puts in lawn signs outside a surrogate campaign event for former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Ankeny, Iowa on January 15, 2024. Photo by Julia Nikhinson/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

A supporter of former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump talks reporters at a surrogate campaign event in Ankeny, Iowa on January 15, 2024. Photo by Julia Nikhinson/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

Lawn signs outside a surrogate campaign event for former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Ankeny, Iowa on January 15, 2024. Photo by Julia Nikhinson/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

A man wears a hat with presidential candidate signatures at a surrogate campaign event for former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Ankeny, Iowa on January 15, 2024. Photo by Julia Nikhinson/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

A man wears a hat with presidential candidate signatures at a surrogate campaign event for former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Ankeny, Iowa on January 15, 2024. Photo by Julia Nikhinson/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump

A property management employee removes lawn signs outside a surrogate campaign event for former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Ankeny, Iowa on January 15, 2024. Photo by Julia Nikhinson/ABACAPRESS.COM

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XINHUA-PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2022-CHINA NEWS

(230110) -- BEIJING, Jan. 10, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Sept. 26, 2022 shows a cloned arctic wolf (L) and a beagle, which is the surrogate mother of the arctic wolf, at Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. The cloned arctic wolf's donor cell came from the skin samples of a wild arctic wolf named Maya, who had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland in 2006. Its oocyte was from a female dog in estrus and its surrogate mother was a beagle. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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Fertility network head interviewed in Paris

PARIS, France - Mariam Kukunashvili, director and founder of New Life Global Network headquartered in Georgia, speaks in an interview in Paris on Sept. 14, 2014. According to Kukunashvili, a 24-year-old Japanese man who she introduced surrogate mothers to wanted to father 10 to 15 babies every year for as long as he lived.

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Indian doctor posts photos of children born via surrogacy

MUMBAI, India - Anirruddha Malpani, a fertility specialist at the Malpani Infertility Clinic, stands by photos of surrogate children delivered at his clinic in Mumbai, India, on Aug. 19, 2014.

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Surrogate mother in Mumbai, India

MUMBAI, India - A surrogate mother, with her back turned to the camera, is seen in Mumbai, India, on Aug. 19, 2014. The Indian government last year placed stricter regulations on foreign visitors seeking surrogacy services in the country.

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Lawyer of Japanese man who fathered many surrogate babies

BANGKOK, Thailand - The Thai lawyer for a 24-year-old Japanese man who has fathered many surrogate babies in Thailand is surrounded by the press at the Thai police headquarters in Bangkok on Sept. 9, 2014. According to Thai police, the Japanese man side told the police that he is the father of 19 babies, including one yet to be born.

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DNA of Japanese man matches 12 babies in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - A senior official of Thai police speaks at a news conference in Bangkok on Aug. 20, 2014. He said that a DNA sample provided by a Japanese businessman suspected of siring 12 surrogate babies in Thailand matches with all 12 infants.

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Thai police receive DNA sample of Japanese man

BANGKOK, Thailand - Photo taken Aug. 18, 2014, shows the Thai national police headquarters in Bangkok. The lawyer of a Japanese man suspected of fathering at least 15 surrogate babies submitted the same day a DNA sample to Thai police investigating a case of nine pairs of surrogate babies and nannies found in an apartment in Bangkok early that month, to be used in paternity testing to verify his claim to be the biological father.

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Surrogate babies in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand - Photo taken Aug. 10, 2014, shows a facility near Bangkok where nine surrogate infants and toddlers, believed to share the same Japanese biological father, are being sheltered following their recent discovery by police in a Bangkok condominium. Thai police believe at least 13 surrogate babies, including the nine, were fathered by the Japanese man and he took three children out of the country.

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Surrogate mother gives birth to own grandchild

NAGANO, Japan - Yahiro Netsu, director of the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, speaks to reporters on Feb. 29 about the eighth surrogate birth at the clinic. Netsu said a woman in her 50s gave birth to her own grandson through surrogate birth on behalf of her daughter, who was born without a womb.

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Surrogate mother gives birth to own grandchild

NAGANO, Japan - A nurse at the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, holds a surrogate-born baby boy at the clinic on Feb. 29. A woman in her 50s gave birth to the boy, who is her grandson, through surrogate birth on behalf of her daughter, who was born without a womb.

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Top court repeals order for registry of surrogate-born twins

TOKYO, Japan - Files photos show TV personality Aki Mukai (L) and former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada. The Supreme Court on March 23 repealed a lower court ruling ordering a Tokyo ward office to accept on its registry twins born to the couple through an American surrogate mother. The decision by the top court's No. 2 petty bench finalizes Shinagawa Ward's rejection to register the births of the boys, now aged 3.

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Woman in 50s gives birth to own grandchild

TOKYO, Japan - Yahiro Netsu, director of the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, explains a surrogate birth at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 15. A woman in her 50s gave birth to her own grandchild last year at his clinic in a host surrogacy on behalf of her daughter in her 30s, who had had her uterus removed for cancer.

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Old cow ova nuclei transplanted to young ovum, calf expected

MORIOKA, Japan - A surrogate mother cow (in photo taken Feb. 19) in Shizukuishi, Iwate Prefecture, is expecting a calf inheriting genetic information from aged female cows. A joint clinic and university team involved in the project said the ova nuclei from the older cows were transplanted into a younger cow's ovum, whose nucleus had been removed, and that the fertilized eggs produced through in vitro fertilization of this ovum were then transplanted into four surrogate mother cows, two of which became pregnant.

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Doctor says produced 1st surrogate birth in Japan

NAGANO, Japan - Suwa Maternity Clinic Director Yahiro Netsu meets the press on May 19 to announce he has helped a woman become the first surrogate mother in Japan. The woman successfully gave birth at the clinic in the town of Shimosuwa in Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, this spring for her sister, who had undergone a hysterectomy.

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-HARBIN-CLONED ARCTIC WOLF (CN)

(220929) -- HARBIN, Sept. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Sept. 28, 2022 shows a cloned arctic wolf at Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. A cloned arctic wolf met the public at Harbin Polarland in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province lately. Its donor cell came from the skin samples of a wild arctic wolf named Maya, who had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland. Its oocyte was from a female dog in estrus and its surrogate mother was a beagle. Now the wolf pup is in good health condition and lives with its surrogate mother at Harbin Polarland. Arctic wolf is an endangered species. They are found in northern Eurasia and northern parts of Canada and Greenland. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-HARBIN-CLONED ARCTIC WOLF (CN)

(220929) -- HARBIN, Sept. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Sept. 26, 2022 shows a cloned arctic wolf at Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. A cloned arctic wolf met the public at Harbin Polarland in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province lately. Its donor cell came from the skin samples of a wild arctic wolf named Maya, who had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland. Its oocyte was from a female dog in estrus and its surrogate mother was a beagle. Now the wolf pup is in good health condition and lives with its surrogate mother at Harbin Polarland. Arctic wolf is an endangered species. They are found in northern Eurasia and northern parts of Canada and Greenland. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-HARBIN-CLONED ARCTIC WOLF (CN)

(220929) -- HARBIN, Sept. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Sept. 28, 2022 shows a cloned arctic wolf at Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. A cloned arctic wolf met the public at Harbin Polarland in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province lately. Its donor cell came from the skin samples of a wild arctic wolf named Maya, who had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland. Its oocyte was from a female dog in estrus and its surrogate mother was a beagle. Now the wolf pup is in good health condition and lives with its surrogate mother at Harbin Polarland. Arctic wolf is an endangered species. They are found in northern Eurasia and northern parts of Canada and Greenland. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-HARBIN-CLONED ARCTIC WOLF (CN)

(220929) -- HARBIN, Sept. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Sept. 28, 2022 shows a cloned arctic wolf (R) at Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. A cloned arctic wolf met the public at Harbin Polarland in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province lately. Its donor cell came from the skin samples of a wild arctic wolf named Maya, who had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland. Its oocyte was from a female dog in estrus and its surrogate mother was a beagle. Now the wolf pup is in good health condition and lives with its surrogate mother at Harbin Polarland. Arctic wolf is an endangered species. They are found in northern Eurasia and northern parts of Canada and Greenland. (Xinhua/Zhang Tao)

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-HARBIN-CLONED ARCTIC WOLF (CN)

(220929) -- HARBIN, Sept. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Sept. 26, 2022 shows a cloned arctic wolf (L) and a beagle, which is the surrogate mother of the arctic wolf, at Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. A cloned arctic wolf met the public at Harbin Polarland in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province lately. Its donor cell came from the skin samples of a wild arctic wolf named Maya, who had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland. Its oocyte was from a female dog in estrus and its surrogate mother was a beagle. Now the wolf pup is in good health condition and lives with its surrogate mother at Harbin Polarland. Arctic wolf is an endangered species. They are found in northern Eurasia and northern parts of Canada and Greenland. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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CHINA-HEILONGJIANG-HARBIN-CLONED ARCTIC WOLF (CN)

(220929) -- HARBIN, Sept. 29, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Sept. 26, 2022 shows a cloned arctic wolf at Harbin Polarland in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. A cloned arctic wolf met the public at Harbin Polarland in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province lately. Its donor cell came from the skin samples of a wild arctic wolf named Maya, who had been introduced from Canada to Harbin Polarland. Its oocyte was from a female dog in estrus and its surrogate mother was a beagle. Now the wolf pup is in good health condition and lives with its surrogate mother at Harbin Polarland. Arctic wolf is an endangered species. They are found in northern Eurasia and northern parts of Canada and Greenland. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

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Xinhua Headlines: A manufactured tragedy -- U.S. COVID-19 deaths reach 1 mln

(220513) -- NEW YORK, May 13, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. flag flies at half-mast atop the New York County Surrogate's Court in New York, the United States, on May 12, 2022. TO GO WITH "Xinhua Headlines: A manufactured tragedy -- U.S. COVID-19 deaths reach 1 mln" (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)

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Calf born using sperm of cloned bull

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Oct. 4 by the Cattle Breeding Institute in Osumi, Kagoshima Prefecture, shows a calf born from a surrogate mother impregnated through artificial insemination with the sperm of a bull cloned from somatic cells. Researchers at the institute said the birth, a first for Japan and probably the world, proves that cloned bulls are capable of breeding and is a step toward using cloning technology in stock breeding.

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BABY MAMA

BABY MAMA TINA FEY, AMY POEHLER Date: 2008

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BABY MAMA

BABY MAMA TINA FEY, SIGOURNEY WEAVER, AMY POEHLER Date: 2008

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BABY MAMA

BABY MAMA [US 2008] TINA FEY, AMY POEHLER [L-R] Mother-to-be Kate Holbrook (TINA FEY) and surrogate Angie (AMY POEHLER) trash an ex-boyfriend's car.] BABY MAMA [US 2008] TINA FEY, AMY POEHLER [L-R] Mother-to-be Kate Holbrook (TINA FEY) and surrogate Angie (AMY POEHLER) trash an ex-boyfriend's car.] Date: 2008

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BABY MAMA

BABY MAMA TINA FEY, AMY POEHLER Date: 2008

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BABY MAMA

BABY MAMA TINA FEY, AMY POEHLER Date: 2008

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BABY MAMA

BABY MAMA TINA FEY, AMY POEHLER Date: 2008

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BABY MAMA

BABY MAMA AMY POEHLER, DAX SHEPARD Surrogate Angie (AMY POEHLER) and husband Carl (DAX SHEPARD) charm their client in the comic story of two women, one apartment and the nine months that will change their lives.] BABY MAMA Date: 2008

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Top court repeals order for registry of surrogate-born twins

TOKYO, Japan - Files photos show TV personality Aki Mukai (L) and former professional wrestler Nobuhiko Takada. The Supreme Court on March 23 repealed a lower court ruling ordering a Tokyo ward office to accept on its registry twins born to the couple through an American surrogate mother. The decision by the top court's No. 2 petty bench finalizes Shinagawa Ward's rejection to register the births of the boys, now aged 3. (Kyodo)

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Surrogate mother gives birth to own grandchild

NAGANO, Japan - Yahiro Netsu, director of the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, speaks to reporters on Feb. 29 about the eighth surrogate birth at the clinic. Netsu said a woman in her 50s gave birth to her own grandson through surrogate birth on behalf of her daughter, who was born without a womb. (Kyodo)

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Woman in 50s gives birth to own grandchild

TOKYO, Japan - Yahiro Netsu, director of the Suwa Maternity Clinic in Shimosuwa, Nagano Prefecture, explains a surrogate birth at a news conference in Tokyo on Oct. 15. A woman in her 50s gave birth to her own grandchild last year at his clinic in a host surrogacy on behalf of her daughter in her 30s, who had had her uterus removed for cancer. (Kyodo)

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Old cow ova nuclei transplanted to young ovum, calf expected

MORIOKA, Japan - A surrogate mother cow (in photo taken Feb. 19) in Shizukuishi, Iwate Prefecture, is expecting a calf inheriting genetic information from aged female cows. A joint clinic and university team involved in the project said the ova nuclei from the older cows were transplanted into a younger cow's ovum, whose nucleus had been removed, and that the fertilized eggs produced through in vitro fertilization of this ovum were then transplanted into four surrogate mother cows, two of which became pregnant.

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Fertility network head interviewed in Paris

PARIS, France - Mariam Kukunashvili, director and founder of New Life Global Network headquartered in Georgia, speaks in an interview in Paris on Sept. 14, 2014. According to Kukunashvili, a 24-year-old Japanese man who she introduced surrogate mothers to wanted to father 10 to 15 babies every year for as long as he lived. (Kyodo)

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Lawyer of Japanese man who fathered many surrogate babies

BANGKOK, Thailand - The Thai lawyer for a 24-year-old Japanese man who has fathered many surrogate babies in Thailand is surrounded by the press at the Thai police headquarters in Bangkok on Sept. 9, 2014. According to Thai police, the Japanese man side told the police that he is the father of 19 babies, including one yet to be born. (Kyodo)

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Thai police receive DNA sample of Japanese man

BANGKOK, Thailand - Photo taken Aug. 18, 2014, shows the Thai national police headquarters in Bangkok. The lawyer of a Japanese man suspected of fathering at least 15 surrogate babies submitted the same day a DNA sample to Thai police investigating a case of nine pairs of surrogate babies and nannies found in an apartment in Bangkok early that month, to be used in paternity testing to verify his claim to be the biological father. (Kyodo)