India Surrogacy at Risk

A plethora of negative publicity has caused a government commission to call for stricter legislation to control (ART) clinics, as well as the rights and obligations of parties to a surrogacy. The Commission said: “the growth in the ART methods is recognition of the fact that infertility as a medical condition is a huge impediment in the overall well-being of couples and cannot be overlooked especially in a patriarchal society like India. A woman is respected as a wife only if she is mother of a child, so that her husband’s masculinity and sexual potency is proved and the lineage continues.”

The Commission recommended comprehensive provisions dealing with pre and post-surrogacy period and also the rights and protection of a surrogate mother, the child, as well as the intending parents.

Comparative cost advantage in India had made it a favorable destination for foreign couples and a whole branch of medical tourism had flourished on the surrogate practice. “It seems that wombs in India are on rent which translates into babies for foreigners and dollars for Indian surrogate mothers,” the report said.

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