THE minister responsible for Manitoba's Vital Statistics Agency says he will investigate whether rules and procedures can be changed to avoid the frustration suffered by a city couple whose names weren't listed on the certificates of their twin sons' births.
"We're going to continue to look at what is happening in other jurisdictions and see what we can do to help make it easier for couples in this situation," Jim Rondeau said Tuesday.
Rondeau was responding to the story of Mike Olson and Lisa Seel, parents of twin boys born Dec. 24. The babies were carried to term by Seel's sister, Averill Stephenson, following embryo transplants.
The couple got legal advice on how to proceed with the surrogacy, but were unprepared for how Vital Statistics would record their sons' births. Stephenson was listed as the mother on the birth certificates, and since she is legally married, her husband was automatically listed as the dad. Olson and Seel now have to go to court to have the birth certificates reflect the reality they are, in fact, the parents.
But both Rondeau and the director of Vital Statistics, Susan Boulter, said Tuesday the couple's lawyers should have warned them they would have to apply to the courts to make the changes.
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