Surrogacy News – Indian Government Introduce A Law For Gay Couples, Singles Over Surrogacy In India

Indian Government has issued new surrogacy rules stopping foreign gay couples and single people from availing surrogate mothers services. Ivf and infertility specialist doctors have said that this rule is totally against parenthood.

Delhi, Delhi (I-Newswire) February 20, 2013 - India has issued new rules barring foreign gay couples and single people from using surrogate mothers to become parents, drawing sharp criticism from gay rights advocates and fertility clinics. Commercial surrogacy is a booming industry in India and in recent years ranks of childless foreign couples looking for a low-cost, legally simple route to parenthood have been joined by gay couples and singles.

The measures, circulated to Indian missions abroad in late 2012, which only came to light in the Indian media on Friday, mark the first step to the regulation of "surrogacy tourism" in India. The rules say foreign couples seeking to enter into a surrogacy arrangement in India must be a "man and woman (who) are duly married and the marriage should be sustained at least two years".

The rule changes, posted on the Indian home ministry's website, were denounced by fertility clinics and gay rights activists as "discriminatory". "Parenting is everybody's right and now we're withdrawing that right," said Dr Rita Bakshi, who heads the International Fertility Centre in New Delhi.

"These rules are definitely not welcome, definitely restrictive and very discriminatory," she told AFP. "This is a huge heartbreak for homosexual couples and singles," commented fertility doctor Dr.Rita Bakshi.

About

Dr.Rita Bakshi,
MBBS, DGO, MD (Obs & Gynae)

Chairperson – IVF Program.
She graduated from Lady Harding Medical College University of Delhi, got Diploma in Obs & Gynae from St. Stephens Hospital and MD (Gynae & Obs) from Safdarjung Hospital.

She is trained in ART (Assisted reproductive Techniques) & IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) from Inst. of reproductive Medicine Kolkata under doyen & pioneer of IVF. Dr. B. N. Chakravorty, Diploma (ART) From KKIVF Hospital Singapore, Diploma (Endoscopy)
From Kiel (Germany) She has more than 23 years of experience and has done more than 2000 assisted conception cycles with high success rates. She is an expert in assisted reproductive procedures like Surrogacy, Laparoscopy hysteroscopy, IUI, IVF, ICSI, Laser hatching, blastocyst culture, freezing of eggs/ embryos.


To find out more about the International Fertility Centre, please visit the International Fertility Centre web site at www.internationalfertilitycentre.com