Surrogacy abroad: Legal pathways and challenges for Indian couples seeking parenthood beyond bordersSurrogacy laws in India are restrictive. NRIs and OCIs seek surrogacy abroad. They face legal and ethical challenges. Parentage establishme...
Kerala HC allows 50-year-old woman to pursue surrogacy, overturning previous rulingThe Kerala High Court has permitted a 50-year-old woman to pursue surrogacy under the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021, reversing a prior d...
Surrogacy rules changed, couples with medical condition can use donor gametesThe Centre has amended the surrogacy rules 2022 to allow married couples with a medical condition to use a donor's egg or sperm. The Distri...
Surrogacy law: SC questioned purpose of previous rulesThe Supreme Court's intervention leads to a significant change in surrogacy rules, allowing married couples to use donor eggs or sperm if o...
Delhi HC seeks Centre stand on plea against exclusion of infertile couples from surrogacyA bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad issued notice to the central government on the petition by a ...
Centre opposes plea before Delhi HC assailing provisions of surrogacy lawIn an affidavit, the Centre has said the law was passed by Parliament after receiving comments from all the stakeholders and the provisions...
No longer an outlier: New York ends commercial surrogacy banAt the time, New York was one of a handful of states outlawing commercial surrogacy. Now, it's about to become legal after years of activis...
Govt introduces bill to ban commercial surrogacyOnly Indian couples who have been legally married for at least five years would be allowed to opt for surrogacy.
5 year wait for surrogacy too long for those who marry late: Parliamentary panelThough the definition of infertility is limited to failure to conceive only, there are other medical conditions for which surrogacy is avai...
Surrogacy Bill useless without ART Bill: Committee to Rajya SabhaThe committee, which the Rajya Sabha directed in January to prepare a report on the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, tabled its findings on Thu...
Parliamentary panel invites suggestions on surrogacy regulation billThe Rajya Sabha Chairman has granted extension upto July 11 to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare for a repo...
Sushma Swaraj takes to Twitter to defend new surrogacy lawsThe bill was a response to India emerging as a hub for surrogacy and concerns about the commercial exploitation of poor women who bear chil...
Banning commercial surrogacy will expose women to exploitationSurrogacy has been an unregulated arena and there is immense scope for exploitation of poor women acting as surrogate mothers.
No visa for foreigners planning surrogacy in IndiaThe home ministry has instructed Indian missions and FRROs not to grant visa to couples intending to visit India for surrogacy.
Don't put a ban on surrogacy for foreigners for convenience, act with reasonA sudden drastic move to disallow surrogacy for foreigners only creates confusion in the minds of those involved in the process.
Ban on surrogacy for foreigners: How govt's recent decision will push a booming industry into black marketThe speedy passing of the long-pending Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill might put to rest a lot of the questions surround...
Andhra Pradesh and Telangana Women's Commission seeks legislation to regulate surrogacyHolding that surrogacy has become a commercial activity in India, the AP and Telangana Women's Commission demanded enactment of a legislati...