３月度報告 （March 10, 2016 ）                              当番リーダー　佐藤 一雄

Japan Times Editorials dated Feb. 21, 2016

「凍結卵子―選択とリスク」について：

「卵子凍結保存」について学習した結果、その必要性について次の３点が浮かび上がった。

  1. 働く女性が長期間活躍するため卵子凍結保存により結婚・出産を遅らせる事が可能となる。

  2. 癌など難病を治療する女性が回復後の妊娠・出産が可能となる。

  3. 未だﾊﾟｰﾄﾅｰに巡り会えない女性が将来の結婚と出産に備えることが可能になる。

又、卵子凍結を実行する場合の条件と現状については、

☆卵子凍結時期は若いほど良く、４０才が限界。精子との人工授精は４５才ぐらいが限界という。

２０１０年、大阪の専門クリニックで２３０人の健康な女性が卵子を凍結した。内17人が試験管受精を受けたが受精・出産に成功したのは1名のみ。このように成功率は低い。従って逆に勤労婦人が卵子凍結なしで普通自然分娩を行い出産後も支障なく仕事を続けられるような強力な社会的経済的環境整備の加速が急務であることが再認識できた。

As the result of learning about “Egg-freezing”, following three points emerged on the need.

  1. The method makes it possible for working women to set back their marriage and childbirth.

  2. The method makes it possible for female patients who suffer from obstinate diseases like cancer to become pregnant after completed therapy.

  3. The method also makes it possible for women who haven’t yet found a partner be ready for marriage and childbirth when they will do in future.

As regards medical condition and contemporary situation on the conduct of “Egg-freezing”,

☆Younger the better. It should be conducted by max. 40 years old and fertilized with the husband’s sperm hopefully by 45 years of her age. In 2010, 230 healthy women underwent freezing of their eggs at a reproductive clinic in Osaka and 17 women out of 230 went through IVF procedure, only one person succeeded in becoming pregnant. Thus, still low success rate. Consequently, we thought that the best way for them would be natural childbirth without egg-freezing treatment in order to enable themselves to maintain their jobs even after childbirth being carefully guarded by action compelling socioeconomic environmental system for working women.

 

Japan Times Editorials dated Feb. 23, 2016

「選挙制度改革問題深刻化」について：

衆議院475議席を10議席減らして現在の都道府県の1票の格差を2：1 以下のギャップにおさえようと阿部首相は関連法案を2015年の簡易国税調査結果を踏まえて今期国会会期中に議論終え可決しようと目論んでいる。しかし連立与党（LDP+Komeito）内での意見統一が進まず自ら困難に直面している。ちなみに削減する10議席の内訳は6議席が295議席の小選挙区、残る4議席が180議席の比例代表区へ課される予定となっている。上記1票の格差２：１以内という前提は2009，2012及び2014最高裁判所が述べた数字。衆議院大島議長の提唱で設定されたパネルでも議論は進むものの各選挙区選出議員達を介して地元市民の意見反映が色濃く現れ選挙制度改革の実現には未だ大分時間がかかりそうだ。

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party has been striving to get a bill passed through the Lower House in order to correct the sharp disparity in the value of votes between populous and less populous constituencies by reducing 10 chamber seats from the current 475 taking proportion of 2:1 ratio on the basis of National Population Census implemented in 2015. However, the ruling alliance (LDP + Komeito ) can’t consolidate their own opinion among the parties. By the way, breakdown of 10 sets reduction are such as 6seats out of 295 elected in single-seat constituencies and 4 of the 180 chosen in proportional representation blocs.

The permissible disparity of 2:1 had been stated by the Supreme Court in 2009, 2012 and 2014. A panel conference led by Lower House Speaker Tadamori Oshima is seeking out the proposition but can unlikely outstands complex opinion and objections raised by local legislators who represent interests of local people. Thus, it seems to take a considerable time till electoral reform is actualized.