Couples 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 […]
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[…]
The United Arab Emirates’ new laws around surrogacy ‘might change a lot for’ Real Housewife Caroline Stanbury and her husband, Sergio Carrallo After her adopted home drafted new laws around surrogacy and fertility treatment, Real Housewives of Dubai star Caroline Stanbury is thinking about what the changes could means for the future of her family. Speaking to The Messenger[…]
The Delhi High Court has observed that the notification issued by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, barring use of donor gametes for an intending couple wanting to undergo surrogacy, prima facie violates the basic rights of a married infertile couple to parenthood by denying them access to legally and medically regulated procedures and services.[…]
A man or his relatives cannot be held guilty for cruelty towards a woman under section 498A of the IPC if there was only a live-in relationship and no solemnisation of marriage, the Kerala High Court has held. Section 498A of the IPC provides the punishment for the husband or the relative of the husband of a[…]