The plea has sought a direction recognising the rights of women other than married women above 35 years of age to avail surrogacy as a mean...

At 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...

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.

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 bill was a response to India emerging as a hub for surrogacy and concerns about the commercial exploitation of poor women who bear chil...

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.

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

The home ministry has instructed Indian missions and FRROs not to grant visa to couples intending to visit India for surrogacy.

A sudden drastic move to disallow surrogacy for foreigners only creates confusion in the minds of those involved in the process.

The speedy passing of the long-pending Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill might put to rest a lot of the questions surround...

The court observed that in case of making a change in policy by the Government, prior notices to the parties should have been given.

But debate has been growing over whether the unregulated business exploits poor women, prompting a petition to the top court for action.

NCW Chairperson Lalita Kumaramangalam said Health Ministry has decided to finalise the bill on surrogacy-related issues by November 15.