Stuti Agarwal | The Times of India | 30 October 2015 Indian society may not be even close to losing faith in the institution of marriage or the overhyped yearning for sons, but some women are daring to break tradition. An increasing number of women is opting for in vitro… Continue reading
Abantika Ghosh | The Indian Express | 8 August 2013 According to CII figures,surrogacy is a $ 2.3 billion industry in the country. The directorate general of health services (DGHS) has proposed that the option of surrogacy should be available only to married,infertile couples of Indian origin. The suggestions forwarded… Continue reading
Himanshi Dhawan | TNN | 18 July 2013 With an unregulated surrogacy industry thriving in India, rich couples are preying on domestic helps and housemaids coercing them to step up to the task. There is little or no protection for the surrogate mother controlled in the most part by a… Continue reading
Swati Deshpande | The Times of India | 13 July 2012 The law governing assisted, or third-party, reproduction in India needs a vital shot in the arm. Experts say the time for a comprehensive new law has come, given that there are about 500 fertility treatment clinics across the country,… Continue reading
Kinjal Desai | DNA | 21 May 2012 For many poor women, surrogacy offers a way out of poverty as do clinical trial of drugs, including those for comatose patients. Living dangerously is nothing new for a majority of the women of Ward 56 of Amraiwadi area, even if the… Continue reading
Steve Connor | The Economic Times | 9 April 2012 The first human egg cells that have been grown entirely in the laboratory from stem cells could be fertilised later this year in a development that will revolutionise fertility treatment and might even lead to a reversal of the menopause… Continue reading
Sudha Umashankar | The Hindu | 16 October 2011 We all started off as embryos in our mothers’ wombs. But, for the young ones of hundreds of sub-fertile couples taking the ART (Assisted Reproductive Technologies) route to parenthood, life begins in a petri dish, under the watchful eyes of an… Continue reading
Kounteya Sinha | TNN | 12 July 2011 NEW DELHI: India’s decadal growth rate has come down from 21.54 in 2001 to 17.64, according to the latest census. Also encouraging is the steady decline in the Total Fertility Rate, which is currently 2.6 — a 42% decline from the mid-1960s.… Continue reading
The Times of India | Bangalore | 11 April 2011 Shalini P, 28, is a garment factory worker with two children. Till last year, when she enrolled to be a surrogate mother to Charles’s son, she was running from pillar to post to repay a loan of about Rs 1.5… Continue reading
Anirudh Laskar, Sneha Shah | LiveMint | 4 April 2011 Mumbai: Indian surrogate mothers may soon be covered by mandatory life cover. Proposed legislation will require the intended parents to get life insurance cover for surrogates. Some life insurers are open to supporting this and informally a few have already… Continue reading
Namita Kohli | Hindustan Times | 13 March 2011 Even as the Draft Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill and Rules, 2010, is being reviewed by the law ministry for a fortnight – it’s likely to be introduced in the Parliament’s Monsoon session – India’s acknowledged ‘booming market’ for ‘cheap’ reproductive labour and… Continue reading
Durgesh Nandan Jha | The Times of India | New Delhi | 16 February 2011 Juam and Mauro, a gay couple from Spain, are cradling two bundles of joy in their arms, holding them close to their chest. They feed the babies every three hours and look every inch the… Continue reading
