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
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
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
Sumitra Deb Roy | The Times of India | Mumbai | 2 Feb 2011 It is an odd tale of two brothers. A pair of twins born to a surrogate lives stateless, while the police and two major governments confusedly fumble about for more than a year in an attempt… Continue reading
Aastha Sharma | The Hindu | 24 July 2010 Surrogacy regulation may well be one of Hilbert’s unsolvable problems. Only this is not mathematics and there are already many versions of the ‘solution’ in existence. It has been a decade since the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the… Continue reading
Anil Malhotra | The Hindu | 24 July 2010 Ethically, should women be paid for being surrogates? Can the rights of women and children be bartered away? If the arrangements fall foul, will it amount to adultery? Is the new law a compromise in surpassing complicated Indian adoption procedures? Read… Continue reading
Sumitra Deb Roy | The Times of India | Mumbai | 21 July 2010 It’s a story that defies conventional norms and seeks to redefine questions of law and ethics across boundaries. An unusual surrogacy case that has opened a can of worms came to light early this month when… Continue reading
