NEW 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 India on a plea filed by a couple challenging the constitutional validity of section 4(iii)(c)(ii) of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021.
Section 4 (iii)(C)(ii) of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 stipulates couples who desire to have a child through surrogacy to secure an eligibility certificate stating that they do not have any surviving child (biologically or through adoption or surrogacy).
