A Japanese woman is giving up her child to the state and is suing her sperm donor after he lied about his background.
The woman in her thirties, who lives in Tokyo with her husband and first born child, had sex with a sperm donor ten times in order to have a second child after it was discovered that he had a hereditary disease.
The donor told her he was single and a graduate of Kyoto University, one of the best universities in Japan.
The woman got pregnant in June of 2019.
She learned that the donor was Chinese and married at a different university.
She decided she didn't want the child she had conceived with this man, but it was too late to end the pregnancy.
She gave the child up to the state and last month filed a lawsuit against the sperm donor for emotional distress.
The woman said he tricked her for the sake of sex.
The woman's lawyer spoke to the Japanese Broadcasting Company, saying that she is suffering from mental distress and sleep problems due to the sperm donor's misrepresentation.
The lawyer said that the lawsuit was a way to prevent similar situations from happening in the future.
There is no law in Japan to regulate sperm donation. The black market for sperm has arisen because there is only one official sperm bank in Japan.
Only 12 hospitals in Japan carry out artificial insemination procedures and there is only one sperm donation center.
According to media reports, there is a thriving black market in sperm on social media and 10,000 children have been born from it.
The woman's choice to give up the baby has received a lot of criticism, with child welfare worker Mizuho Sasaki telling Vice World News that it is "unacceptable to treat the child like an object, but I think it's better to leave the kid with someone who can
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