India Set To Regulate Surrogacy For Parents, No Surrogate Kids For Live-Ins And Homosexual Couples
A draft bill designed to safeguard the rights of surrogate mothers, and legalise parentage for surrogate children has been cleared.
A draft bill designed to safeguard the rights of surrogate mothers, and legalise parentage for surrogate children has been cleared.
#Cabinet #Surrogacy : will set up National Surrogacy Board at central level, State Surrogacy Boards in State & UTs (2/4)
¡ª Frank Noronha (@DG_PIB) August 24, 2016
The draft Surrogacy Bill (2016) aims to regulate how surrogacy is commissioned in India.
Only married woman with atleast one child will be eligible to rent her womb for #surrogacy: @SushmaSwaraj
¡ª All India Radio News (@airnewsalerts) August 24, 2016
Official sources have revealed that the Bill is now on its way to Parliament for a final approval, after being cleared by a Group of Ministers that the PMO had referred.
Won¡¯t be able to buy a womb
#Surrogacy: Single parents, homosexual couples,live-in relationship couples will not be allowed altruistic surrogacy pic.twitter.com/6L57Iy4zHi
¡ª All India Radio News (@airnewsalerts) August 24, 2016
The new law will permit only married Indian couples to have children through 'altruistic' surrogacy, ending the possibility of buying a womb. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said that the legislation will ban the business of commercial surrogacy.
The #Surrogacy bill to ensure effective regulation of surrogacy, prohibit commercial surrogacy and to allow ethical surrogacy:@SushmaSwaraj
¡ª PIB India (@PIB_India) August 24, 2016
Further, it bans live-in and homosexual couples, as well as single parents from surrogacy.
"Wombs of poor women are being bought even by celebrities who have one or two children. This is unethical," she said.
India, no more a womb market
LIVE: All #Surrogacy clinics should be registered: @SushmaSwaraj on Cabinet decision
¡ª PIB India (@PIB_India) August 24, 2016
To prevent exploitation of women, especially those in rural and tribal areas, the government has prohibited foreigners from commissioning surrogacy in the country and has drafted this comprehensive legislation, the sources said. The government had recently said in Parliament that provisions are being made in the draft Bill to make parentage of children born out of surrogacy "legal and transparent".
Cabinet approves introduction of the "Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016.
¡ª Prasar Bharati (@prasarbharati) August 24, 2016
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