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Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019
Why in news
- Health Minister re-introduced the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019 in the Lok Sabha.
More in news
- The Bill envisages to prohibit commercial surrogacy but permits ethical altruistic surrogacy to the intending infertile Indian married couple between the age of 23-50 years and 26-55 years for female and male, respectively.
- The Bill states that a woman should be allowed to act as a surrogate only once, and should be a close relative of the intending couple
- The women should be an ever-married woman having a child of her own and should be between the age of 25-35 years.
- What do you mean by Surrogacy
- It is an arrangement, often supported by a legal agreement, whereby a woman (the surrogate mother) agrees to become pregnant and give birth to a child for another persons who is or will become the parents of the child.
- Two kinds of surrogacy
(1) Traditional surrogate.It's a woman who gets artificially inseminated with the father's sperm. She then carries the baby and delivers it for you and your partner to raise. traditional surrogate is the baby's biological mother. That's because it was her egg that was fertilized by the father's sperm. Donor sperm can also be used.
(2) Gestational surrogates. A technique called "in vitro fertilization" (IVF) now makes it possible to gather eggs from the mother, fertilize them with sperm from the father, and place the embryo into the uterus of a gestational surrogate. The surrogate then carries the baby until birth. She doesn't have any genetic ties to the child because it wasn't her egg that was used.
Source
The Hindu