30

Apr

Law Doesn’t Discriminate Between Individual Women, Couples Seeking IVF; No Requirement For Sperm/Oocyte To Come From Couple Themselves: Calcutta HC

The 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 […]

03

Apr

Restricted by surrogacy laws, Indians are going abroad to become parents

Single 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[…]