surrogacy

Sharda, 35, who is a first time surrogate mother, rests inside the temporary home for surrogate mothers provided by Akanksha IVF center in Anand town, about 70 km (44 miles) south from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad August 21, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Mansi Thapliyal

India’s Proposed Commercial Surrogacy Ban Is an Assault on Women’s Rights

Shonottra Kumar 09/11/2019

The law seeks to bring into force undue restrictions...

Should Women Really Consider Uterus Transplants?

Should Women Really Consider Uterus Transplants?

Sharrona Pearl 17/05/2018

Womb transplants, unlike surrogacy, give women with uterine factor...

Surrogate mothers rest inside a temporary home for surrogates, provided by Akanksha IVF centre, in Anand. Credit: Reuters/Mansi Thapliyal/Files

Parliamentary Panel Report on Surrogacy Bill Is a Good Step, but Definitely Isn’t Perfect

Sarojini Nadimpally, Deepa Venkatachalam and Aswathy Raveendran 16/08/2017

While the committee's recommendations do improve on the draft...

If we think of surrogacy as a form of work, it doesn’t look that different from many other jobs in our increasingly casualised and precarious global economic context. Credit: Alick Sung/Flickr

Can Surrogacy Ever Escape the Taint of Global Exploitation?

Katharine Dow 10/10/2016

Surrogacy is a technology. And like any other technology...

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The Surrogacy Conundrum that Indian Law Needs to Resolve

Akhileshwar Pathak 07/12/2015

It is stated that commercial surrogacy is legal in...