German woman to adopt own child after using surrogate mother
24 April 2019 |
4:49 pm
A top German court recommended a woman adopt her own child after she and her husband used a surrogate mother in Kyiv. With surrogacy banned in Germany, the court said the biological mother had no maternity rights.
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