Germany's high court partially declared surrogate parenthood legal Friday, watering down a rule that prohibits women from offering their wombs to bring a couple's child to term, dpa reported. The case was won by two gay men who had retained a woman in California to give birth to their child, but had not been able to persuade German authorities to recognize the child as theirs. The ruling has implications for other nations such as India, where surrogate mothers have been employed by childless heterosexual German couples. The child was conceived from an anonymously donated ovum and the sperm of one of the men. The surrogate mother gave birth in 2010 and a Californian superior court directed that the infant be registered as the child of the two men. -- SPA 19:28 LOCAL TIME 16:28 GMT تغريد
