非配偶者間人工生殖によって生まれた子どもの出自を知る権利と戸籍制度

抄録

In Japan, the Council for the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare recognized the right of children born by DI (Donor Insemination) to knowledge of their blood relationships, in the final report in 2003. This right will become a significant issue, because the report admitted the legality of reproduction by an egg donor. It goes without saying that the right to knowledge of blood relationships is important, since genetic knowledge has medical, psychological, and social effects. In the Japanese adoption system, the family registers makes it possible for adopted children to determine their blood relationships when they get older. But DI children can not know the information, so there is an imbalance in family register system between DI resulted children and adopted children. How do we solve this imbalance and retain the rights of donor offspring? In this paper, I consider the current situation in Japan and cases of other foreign countries as reference.