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OctThirty-year-old Preet Inder Singh was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma on June 22, 2020. Five days later, before starting chemotherapy, he had given his semen sample for cryopreservation — doctors had said chemotherapy may affect his fertility. Coming to the aid of the parents of a young cancer patient who, months before his death, had sought cryopreservation of […]
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SepWhile hearing the pleas challenging certain surrogacy laws, the Supreme Court today emphasized the need to safeguard the interests of surrogate mothers, even though commercial surrogacy is prohibited in India. A bench comprising Justices BV Nagarathna and N Kotiswar Singh was hearing a batch of petitions pertaining to the Surrogacy Regulation Act and the Assisted Reproductive Technology[…]
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JunCouples struggling with the natural conception of a baby consider other methods. Among the fertility procedures that ensure positive pregnancy is surrogacy. This refers to bearing someone else’s child. Usually, the male and female gametes come from the couple to be implanted and kept in the gestational carrier’s body. After 9 months of development, the fetus is[…]
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MayDuring the hearing before the Supreme Court in the batch of petitions challenging various provisions of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 and the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021, the Central Government has suggested eleven issues, on which parties could file written submissions before the final hearing of the matters. During the hearing today, the Court asked[…]
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AprThe Calcutta High Court has recently held that in cases of in-vitrio fertilisation (IVF), it is not mandatory that either the sperm or the oocyte must come from the couple seeking IVF themselves.A single bench of Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharya perused the rules under the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021 (Act) and allowed a plea by a[…]
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AprNEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Centre on a plea against a provision of the surrogacy law which bars married couples from having a second child through surrogacy if they have a healthy first child. A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Augustine George Masih issued notice to the Union of[…]
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AprSingle men, women, same sex and even straight couples are opting for commercial surrogacy in the US, Canada, East European and Latin American countries.Eight years ago, a same-sex couple in Delhi had a daughter through surrogacy. But when they chose to have another child this year, hoping to complete the picture of an ideal family, the law[…]
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FebNew Delhi, Feb 23, 2024: The Supreme Court has protected the right of parenthood of a woman, suffering from a rare medical condition, by staying the operation of a law which threatened to wreck her hopes to become a mother through surrogacy. The woman, known only as ‘Mrs. ABC’ for anonymity sake, has the Mayer Rokitansky Kuster Hauser[…]
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Feb(i) couple undergoing surrogacy must have both gamete from the intending couple. However, in case when the District Medical Board certifies that either husband or wife constituting the intending couple suffers from medical condition necessitating use of donor gamete then surrogacy using donor gamete is allowed subject to the condition that the child to be born through[…]
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FebIn a significant development, the Supreme Court this week directed new applicants seeking permission to undergo surrogacy to approach the jurisdictional high courts. The Court clarified that the pendency of the petitions challenging the provisions of the surrogacy law in the Supreme Court will not bar the High Courts from entertaining applications filed by individuals seeking permission[…]
