Commercial Surrogacy India

A private hospital on Tuesday informed the Bombay High Court that all IVF procedures were not surrogacy procedures, and it could not let a couple from the city carry on with the process in light of the new act that prohibits commercial surrogacy.

The centre referred a legislation seeking a ban on commercial surrogacy to a 23-member select committee of the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, after members suggested modifications to some of its more contentious provisions. "I move the motion that the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill-2019, as passed by the Lok Sabha, be referred to a select committee of the R...

Commercial surrogacy will soon be banned and only close relatives will be permitted to act as surrogates to infertile couples for "ethical altruistic" reasons.

The Cabinet Wednesday approved a bill that bars commercial surrogacy and allows only close relatives to act as surrogates to needy infertile couples for "altruistic" reasons.

The surrogacy bill that was introduced in Lok Sabha in 2016 was passed today amid noisy protests by Congress and AIADMK parliamentarians over other issues. The bill bans commercial surrogacy and only allows it among close relatives. The proposed law allows surrogacy for couples that cannot have children. Health Minister JP Nadda said the aim of the...

The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 that ensures effective regulation of surrogacy, prohibits commercial surrogacy and allows altruistic surrogacy to the needy Indian infertile couples was passed by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday with a voice vote.

Mumbai: Inside a bungalow in a plush residential area of Gurugram, on the outskirts of Delhi, a group of women in different stages of pregnancy share the hope their babies will be delivered safely – or risk losing the chance of big money, forever. Successful pregnancies have never been more important at this surrogacy centre where every bed is ta...

In a move to ban commercial surrogacy, a bill was today introduced in the Lok Sabha which also seeks to protect women from exploitation and ensure the rights of the child born through surrogacy.

In a legal spill-over of the ban on commercial surrogacy, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday allowed an American couple to make a representation to the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) and Department of Family Welfare to allow them take back to their country eight embryos kept by them in a hospital in Mumbai.

The Bombay High Court today directed that Director General of Foreign Trade and Department of Family Welfare of the Centre be made parties to a petition filed by a US couple who want to take back their eight embryos kept in a city hospital following a recent ban by the Indian government on commercial surrogacy.

Days after NDTV brought you the story of an Indian-origin British couple struggling to get back their frozen embryos from India after the commercial surrogacy ban, many couples in London have come forward with a similar plea to the Indian government.

A UK base, Indian-origin couple are unable to receive frozen embryos they shipped to India for surrogacy three years ago, after the government suggested changes to existing surrogacy rules.

New Delhi: Women rights activists showed concern that implementing ban on commercial surrogacy will be challenging. They said that government’s ban was a step in the right direction but it may push surrogacy underground. India opened up to commercial surrogacy over a decade ago. The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Surrogacy (Regulation)...

India, which opened up to commercial surrogacy over a decade ago, will ban the hiring of women to carry babies, the government has said in a new proposal.

The Wednesday ritual of a cabinet meeting threw up a surprise today- Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj was chosen to brief the press about the session held at the Prime Minister's Office.

A private hospital on Tuesday informed the Bombay High Court that all IVF procedures were not surrogacy procedures, and it could not let a couple from the city carry on with the process in light of the new act that prohibits commercial surrogacy.

The centre referred a legislation seeking a ban on commercial surrogacy to a 23-member select committee of the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, after members suggested modifications to some of its more contentious provisions. "I move the motion that the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill-2019, as passed by the Lok Sabha, be referred to a select committee of the R...

Commercial surrogacy will soon be banned and only close relatives will be permitted to act as surrogates to infertile couples for "ethical altruistic" reasons.

The Cabinet Wednesday approved a bill that bars commercial surrogacy and allows only close relatives to act as surrogates to needy infertile couples for "altruistic" reasons.

The surrogacy bill that was introduced in Lok Sabha in 2016 was passed today amid noisy protests by Congress and AIADMK parliamentarians over other issues. The bill bans commercial surrogacy and only allows it among close relatives. The proposed law allows surrogacy for couples that cannot have children. Health Minister JP Nadda said the aim of the...

The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 that ensures effective regulation of surrogacy, prohibits commercial surrogacy and allows altruistic surrogacy to the needy Indian infertile couples was passed by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday with a voice vote.

Mumbai: Inside a bungalow in a plush residential area of Gurugram, on the outskirts of Delhi, a group of women in different stages of pregnancy share the hope their babies will be delivered safely – or risk losing the chance of big money, forever. Successful pregnancies have never been more important at this surrogacy centre where every bed is ta...

In a move to ban commercial surrogacy, a bill was today introduced in the Lok Sabha which also seeks to protect women from exploitation and ensure the rights of the child born through surrogacy.

In a legal spill-over of the ban on commercial surrogacy, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday allowed an American couple to make a representation to the Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) and Department of Family Welfare to allow them take back to their country eight embryos kept by them in a hospital in Mumbai.

The Bombay High Court today directed that Director General of Foreign Trade and Department of Family Welfare of the Centre be made parties to a petition filed by a US couple who want to take back their eight embryos kept in a city hospital following a recent ban by the Indian government on commercial surrogacy.

Days after NDTV brought you the story of an Indian-origin British couple struggling to get back their frozen embryos from India after the commercial surrogacy ban, many couples in London have come forward with a similar plea to the Indian government.

A UK base, Indian-origin couple are unable to receive frozen embryos they shipped to India for surrogacy three years ago, after the government suggested changes to existing surrogacy rules.

New Delhi: Women rights activists showed concern that implementing ban on commercial surrogacy will be challenging. They said that government’s ban was a step in the right direction but it may push surrogacy underground. India opened up to commercial surrogacy over a decade ago. The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Surrogacy (Regulation)...

India, which opened up to commercial surrogacy over a decade ago, will ban the hiring of women to carry babies, the government has said in a new proposal.

The Wednesday ritual of a cabinet meeting threw up a surprise today- Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj was chosen to brief the press about the session held at the Prime Minister's Office.