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A BABY WAITS: A nurse with baby girl Manji Yamada in a Jaipur hospital on Wednesday. The future of the 12-day-old, born to an Indian surrogate mother, remains uncertain after the Japanese couple who was to take her home divorced. The child was born after eggs from an Indian donor were fertilised using the Japanese man's sperm and implanted in the surrogate mother. The biological father split from his wife after the fertilisation and his former spouse no longer wants the baby. In the absence of a surrogacy law in India, the child - who is an Indian citizen - could only have been adopted by her Japanese father, Ikufumi Yamada, 45. But Indian law does not allow the adoption of a girl by a single father.
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