In the legal argument concerning the regulation of reproductive technologies involving a third party in the process of reproduction, it is commonly recognized that the determination of the parentage of a child who is produced by those technologies is the most important issue. But such focusing on the determination of the parentage of a child concentration conceals another important issue. That is, in almost all cases, it is a woman who undergoes infertility treatment and bears physical and mental burdens, whether she is actually infertile or not.
This article critically examines the fact that women's experience in the process of infertility treatment has been concealed from an standpoint which emphasizes the gender ordering of a society, and suggests the importance of making women visible in the argument about the regulation of reproductive technology.