The 15 major changes suggested by the 23-member select committee of Rajya Sabha to the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019, also included del...

The National ART Registry of India (NARI) maintained by the ISAR is the nodal agency tasked with recording surrogacy cases. But infertility...

The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019 also provides for constitution of surrogacy boards at national and state levels.

Only Indian couples who have been legally married for at least five years would be allowed to opt for surrogacy.

Though the definition of infertility is limited to failure to conceive only, there are other medical conditions for which surrogacy is avai...

The committee, which the Rajya Sabha directed in January to prepare a report on the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, tabled its findings on Thu...

The Rajya Sabha Chairman has granted extension upto July 11 to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare for a repo...

Surrogacy Bill of 2016 not only bans commercial surrogacy but also homosexual couples, people in live-in relationships and single individua...

The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 was introduced by Health Minister J P Nadda amid noisy opposition protest over the government's demon...

The three GST related bills are --- Central Goods and Services Tax Bill, Integrated Goods and Services Tax Bill, Goods and Services Tax (Co...

Sathpathy questioned why a single parent or homosexual couples should not have as much right to raise a child as “traditional” married coup...

Surrogacy has been an unregulated arena and there is immense scope for exploitation of poor women acting as surrogate mothers.

While regulating clinics, the ART bill is expected to set forth norms for procedures, sperm donations and embryo transfers as well.

Nadda stated that the bill was drafted after a wide consultation with 18 ministries, 22 states and 40 stakeholders, including NGOs and lega...

Government has proposed to ban commercial surrogacy to prevent exploitation of surrogate mothers through a legislation, Lok Sabha was infor...

Holding that surrogacy has become a commercial activity in India, the AP and Telangana Women's Commission demanded enactment of a legislati...

Department of Health Research today said there is no proposal to have an expert committee to relook the proposed legislation.