Surrogacy in India: Current scenario

Pages: 534-535
Tarun Dagar, Varun Garg, Ashish Singla, Kunal Khanna and S.K. Dhattarwal (Department of Forensic Medicine, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana)

A surrogate mother is a woman who by contract agrees to bear a child for someone else. Now a day there is a lot of commotion in the health, media and political circles of India and world over regarding the morality of laws surrounding this sensitive albeit legally perplexing issue. Surrogacy in India is relatively low cost and the current legal environment is favorable, however, proposed law amendments and lack of clarity over legal rights of the parties involved raises a few important questions that need to be understood clearly. Increasing infertility rates due to high career aspirations and late age of marriage between couples is leading to a booming capital sector revolving around the market. High surrogacy rate worldwide and cheap womb for hiring, surrogate mothers are quite common in India and the country has emerged as a surrogacy capital of world. In this paper we will discuss the latest aspects of surrogacy in India.