Parliament nod for bill on assisted reproductive tech; surrogacy bill too get Rajya Sabha nodThe Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2021, which was passed by Lok Sabha on December 1, got the approval of Rajya Sabha ...
08 Dec, 2021, 05.06 PM IST
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...
14 Feb, 2021, 07.48 PM IST
New strict Surrogacy Bill on the anvil, clinics shut shopThe National ART Registry of India (NARI) maintained by the ISAR is the nodal agency tasked with recording surrogacy cases. But infertility...
16 Nov, 2019, 11.35 AM IST
Lok Sabha passes Surrogacy BillThe Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019 also provides for constitution of surrogacy boards at national and state levels.
05 Aug, 2019, 06.42 PM IST
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.
15 Jul, 2019, 03.32 PM IST
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...
13 Aug, 2017, 12.11 PM IST
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...
11 Aug, 2017, 12.25 AM IST
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...
10 Apr, 2017, 03.21 PM IST
Bill awaiting House nod will end Karan Johar-like rent-a-wombSurrogacy Bill of 2016 not only bans commercial surrogacy but also homosexual couples, people in live-in relationships and single individua...
06 Mar, 2017, 03.39 PM IST
Bill to ban commercial surrogacy introduced in Lok SabhaThe Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 was introduced by Health Minister J P Nadda amid noisy opposition protest over the government's demon...
21 Nov, 2016, 03.00 PM IST
Parliament Session: 9 new bills including surrogacy regulation in lineThe three GST related bills are --- Central Goods and Services Tax Bill, Integrated Goods and Services Tax Bill, Goods and Services Tax (Co...
10 Nov, 2016, 11.28 PM IST
Double Whammy: What the surrogacy bill brings for IndiaIndia’s proposed surrogacy bill has dealt a double whammy: it restricts options for those who want children & curbs income opportunities fo...
03 Sep, 2016, 03.48 AM IST
Parliamentarians Swapan Dasgupta, Tathagata Satpathy voice concern over Surrogacy BillSathpathy questioned why a single parent or homosexual couples should not have as much right to raise a child as “traditional” married coup...
29 Aug, 2016, 08.17 PM IST
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.
28 Aug, 2016, 10.25 AM IST
After surrogacy, government to regulate IVF, sperm banksWhile regulating clinics, the ART bill is expected to set forth norms for procedures, sperm donations and embryo transfers as well.
27 Aug, 2016, 10.27 AM IST
Surrogacy Bill draft from stone age: CongressIt appears to follow a most anti-liberal approach, not at all in line with the social milieu that we live in and it is also unscientific.
27 Aug, 2016, 06.48 AM IST
Government still open to ideas to improve surrogacy bill, says health minister JP NaddaNadda stated that the bill was drafted after a wide consultation with 18 ministries, 22 states and 40 stakeholders, including NGOs and lega...
26 Aug, 2016, 10.34 PM IST