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史倩玲. (May, 10, 2009). 單身女想當媽 盼政府放寬限制 http://www.lihpao.com/?action-viewnews-itemid-8995 Lihpao news.

        The unmarried women have the right to be a mother. The news (2009, reported on Lihpao news) talks about that unmarried women face the restriction which makes them unable to have their own babies. In the news, the director of the Awakening Foundation points out that government should loosen the Artificial Reproduction Act.

According to the Artificial Reproduction Act (人工生殖法) (2007, released by The of the Legislative Yuan of Republic of China), now the technique of artificial insemination is only allowed to use on the married couple suffer from sterility(不孕症), and it is specific to the couple that involves a man and a woman. Therefore, other kinds of people such as homosexual couples, and also, the unmarried women who want to have her own babies, are excluded by the law.

It is not easy for unmarried women to be a mother in Taiwan. If they choose to be pregnant via artificial insemination, they need to spend a lot of money and go to other countries, because unmarried women are not allowed to use the technique of artificial insemination. However, even though they want to adopt a child, they will be estimated by the social workers from the adoption organization strictly, and finally they are still not allowed to adopt the child because of the reason that they are unmarried.