Gay Singaporean man can adopt son born via surrogacy, court rules
(CNN)A gay Singaporean doctor has won the right to adopt a child he fathered in the United States through a surrogate, in a landmark ruling for the socially conservative country.
On Monday, Singapore’s High Court overturned a 2017 ruling in which a district judge said the man could not legally adopt the child because he was conceived through in vitro fertilization — a process limited to heterosexual married couples in Singapore — and brought to term through surrogacy, which is technically banned.
Under Singapore law, children born out of wedlock are considered illegitimate and do not have the same rights as those born to married couples, unless legally adopted.
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