Single Japanese Woman Gets Pregnant in Her 60s

A single Japanese woman in Japan in her 60s had a donated fertilized egg implanted into her body in the United States.

Now that she has returned to Japan, she has learned that she is in her 15th week.

(Satoko, is that you?)

The woman was at first refused by several medical clinics in Japan (Japan has a problem with accepting patients for some reason) before she was accepted by a clinic in Nagano.

A woman in her 60s became pregnant in 2001 with her husband's sperm and a donated egg and gave birth in Japan.

However, in this case, both the sperm and the egg are donated.

Japan's "Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry committee on assisted reproductive technology filed a report concluding that it was permissible for infertile couples to receive fertilized eggs from third parties."

They didn't, however, plan for a single woman to do it.

The child is likely to be born without a country.

We humans can surely figure out new ways to confound outselves, can't we?