[Premium] Surrogacy Regulation in India: The Big-Picture Analysis
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Recently, the Lok Sabha has passed the Surrogacy (Regulation) bill, 2016 which prohibits commercial surrogacy and allows only altruistic surrogacy. The bill seeks to protect the rights of the surrogate mother and the child born from surrogacy and promotes ethical surrogacy. However, it falls short of addressing certain key concerns regarding the surrogacy in India.
What is surrogacy?
- Surrogacy is an agreement between a couple (who cannot conceive) and a surrogate mother who are willing to carry their child.
- There are two types of surrogacy based on procedure viz - Traditional (Intra-Autrine Insemination) surrogacy and Gestational (In-Vitro Fertiliz
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