Avoiding Donor Egg In Gestational Surrogacy Contradicts To Surrogacy Rules
1 year, 5 months ago

Avoiding Donor Egg In Gestational Surrogacy Contradicts To Surrogacy Rules

Live Law  

The Supreme Court has observed that insisting that only the egg and the sperm of an intending couple can be used for gestational surrogacy is prima facie against Rule 14 of the Surrogacy Rules, 2022. A new amendment introduced in March 2023 to Form 2 read with Rule 7 of the Surrogacy Rules specifies that donor eggs cannot be used for gestational surrogacy of an intending. A new amendment introduced in March 2023 to Form 2 read with Rule 7 of the Surrogacy Rules specifies that donor eggs cannot be used for gestational surrogacy of an intending couple. The recent amendment substituted paragraph 1 in Form 2 to ensure that a couple undergoing surrogacy cannot have donor gametes and both the male and female gamete must come from the intending couple.

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Centre amends surrogacy rules, maternity leaves to govt employees extended to 180 day
9 months ago

Centre amends surrogacy rules, maternity leaves to govt employees extended to 180 day

Hindustan Times  

The Centre has amended the Central Civil Services Rules, 1972, entitling surrogate mothers and parents who adopt those children with child care leave. According to DD news, in cases of surrogacy, the surrogate, a central government employee, will be able to get 180 days of maternity leave. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} Similarly, if the commissioning mother, who has less than …

Centre amends surrogacy rules, maternity leaves to govt employees extended to 180 day
9 months ago

Centre amends surrogacy rules, maternity leaves to govt employees extended to 180 day

Hindustan Times  

The Centre has amended the Central Civil Services Rules, 1972, entitling surrogate mothers and parents who adopt those children with child care leave. According to DD news, in cases of surrogacy, the surrogate, a central government employee, will be able to get 180 days of maternity leave. Similarly, if the commissioning mother, who has less than two living children and …

Amended surrogacy law doesn’t go the full distance
1 year ago

Amended surrogacy law doesn’t go the full distance

Hindustan Times  

The amendment to the Surrogacy Rules, 2022, now allows donor gametes to be used by couples facing medical issues. While logical, the amendment still does not go far enough because even now at least one donor gamete has to be from the commissioning parents and a single woman still needs her own gametes. Courts have passed interim orders in multiple …

How will the change in surrogacy rules impact prospective parents? | In Focus podcast
1 year ago

How will the change in surrogacy rules impact prospective parents? | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

The Surrogacy Act was passed in 2021, but over two years later, it continues to be mired in some amount of confusion and on-going cases in the Supreme Court. Brought in to ban commercial surrogacy, it allows only for altruistic surrogacy under certain conditions, and aims to regulate surrogacy clinics, part of the huge infertility health sector in the country. …

Tweaks fail to fix flaws in surrogacy regulations
1 year, 1 month ago

Tweaks fail to fix flaws in surrogacy regulations

Hindustan Times  

The government has tweaked the Surrogacy Rules to allow married couples to use donor gametes if one of them is unable to provide viable ova or sperm. The Surrogacy Act remains a much-flawed legislation, and incremental corrections mean sections of the population will continue to be deprived of the option. Even in the present instance, widows and women divorcees can’t …

Why were the surrogacy rules modified? | Explained
1 year, 1 month ago

Why were the surrogacy rules modified? | Explained

The Hindu  

February 25, 2024 10:14 pm | Updated February 26, 2024 10:48 am IST The story so far: The Union government on February 21 modified the Surrogacy Rules, 2022, to permit married couples to use donor eggs or donor sperm for surrogacy — a move that provided a big relief to those with medical complications. The modification in the surrogacy rules …

Surrogacy rules changed in India: Who will benefit?
1 year, 1 month ago

Surrogacy rules changed in India: Who will benefit?

Live Mint  

The Centre has now allowed married couples to use an egg or sperm of a donor in case one of the partners is suffering from a medical condition. As per the amended Surrogacy Rules, 2022 the District Medical Board has to certify that either the husband or wife is suffering from a medical condition, necessitating the use of donor gamete. …

"Reproductive Health Is A Facet Of Personal Liberty": Bombay High Court Allows Two Couples To Use Prohibited Donor Gametes For Surrogacy
1 year, 1 month ago

"Reproductive Health Is A Facet Of Personal Liberty": Bombay High Court Allows Two Couples To Use Prohibited Donor Gametes For Surrogacy

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court has allowed two women to undergo surrogacy using 'donor gametes' which is otherwise prohibited under an amendment in 2023 to Surrogacy Rules, 2022. “.we are of the clear opinion that if the protection as prayed for is not granted to the Petitioners it would certainly prejudice their legal rights to achieve parenthood through surrogacy which they …

Centre seeks data from States to assess functioning of Surrogacy Act, 2021
1 year, 2 months ago

Centre seeks data from States to assess functioning of Surrogacy Act, 2021

The Hindu  

The Union Health Ministry has asked all States and UTs about the total number of couples and single and unmarried women who have availed surrogacy successfully since the Surrogacy Act, 2021, came into force to assess the functioning of the law. In a communication sent to the Principal Secretary /Secretary of all States and UTs last month, the Ministry also …

The pope wants surrogacy banned. Here's why one advocate says that's misguided
1 year, 2 months ago

The pope wants surrogacy banned. Here's why one advocate says that's misguided

NPR  

The pope wants surrogacy banned. Here's why one advocate says that's misguided Enlarge this image toggle caption Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty images Filippo Monteforte/AFP via Getty images Earlier this week, Pope Francis called for a worldwide ban on surrogacy, claiming that the practice, which helps individuals and couples have children, exploits the women who carry them. "I deem deplorable the …

Kerala High Court Relies On Apex Court Verdict To Allow Surrogacy With Donor Eggs, Despite 2023 Surrogacy Regulations Amendment Disallowing It
1 year, 3 months ago

Kerala High Court Relies On Apex Court Verdict To Allow Surrogacy With Donor Eggs, Despite 2023 Surrogacy Regulations Amendment Disallowing It

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court on Monday passed an interim order allowing petitioners who had approached the Court through three different pleas to undergo surrogacy using donor oocytes since they were unable to produce oocytes naturally due to medical conditions. Justice Devan Ramachandran, permitted the petitioners to undergo surrogacy by using doner eggs relying upon the recent Apex Court decision in …

Karnataka High Court Allows Thirteen Intending Couples To Undergo Surrogacy Using Donor Gametes Despite New Amendment Disallowing It
1 year, 4 months ago

Karnataka High Court Allows Thirteen Intending Couples To Undergo Surrogacy Using Donor Gametes Despite New Amendment Disallowing It

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court has allowed a batch of petitions and permitted thirteen couples to opt for surrogacy using donor gametes. The bench said the new amendment to the Surrogacy Rules which prohibits the use of donor eggs for gestational surrogacy of an intending couple can be diluted on a case to case basis. The amendment substituted paragraph 1 in …

Supreme Court allows surrogacy, strikes down rule banning use of donor gametes
1 year, 5 months ago

Supreme Court allows surrogacy, strikes down rule banning use of donor gametes

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court has protected the right of parenthood of a woman, suffering from a rare medical condition, by staying the operation of a law which threatened to wreck her hopes to become a mother through surrogacy. Mr. Jain referred to Rule 14 of the Surrogacy Rules which listed the medical or congenital conditions owing to which a woman could …

Infertile Couples Excluded From Opting For Surrogacy: Plea In Bombay High Court Challenges Notification Barring Use Of Donor Gametes
1 year, 10 months ago

Infertile Couples Excluded From Opting For Surrogacy: Plea In Bombay High Court Challenges Notification Barring Use Of Donor Gametes

Live Law  

A writ petition before Bombay High Court challenges an amendment to the surrogate mother’s consent form under the Surrogacy Rules, 2022, which prevents couples from availing surrogacy using donor gametes. “…the principal reasons any intending couple or single woman tend to opt for surrogacy are infertility by birth or otherwise, various failed attempts through IVF procedures and advanced age due …

[Citizenship Of Surrogate Babies] Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019 Is Going To Be Placed Before Rajya Sabha: Centre Informs SC [Read Order]
4 years, 6 months ago

[Citizenship Of Surrogate Babies] Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019 Is Going To Be Placed Before Rajya Sabha: Centre Informs SC [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Surrogacy Bill, 2019 is going to be placed before the Rajya Sabha in the ensuing Monsoon Session, the Centre informed the Supreme Court today.The Additional Solicitor General made this submission while the Court was considering an appeal which raises the issue of citizenship of a child born in India out of surrogacy in which biological parents are foreign nationals …

Is surrogacy legal in the UK, how does it work and how much does it cost?
5 years, 10 months ago

Is surrogacy legal in the UK, how does it work and how much does it cost?

The Independent  

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Surrogacy Regulation Bill: Parliamentary panel report highlights legislation's draconian, paternalistic nature
7 years, 6 months ago

Surrogacy Regulation Bill: Parliamentary panel report highlights legislation's draconian, paternalistic nature

Firstpost  

In August this year, the Parliamentary Standing Committee submitted its 102nd report on the Surrogacy Regulation Bill, 2016. On the other hand, gestational surrogacy – also referred to as “full surrogacy” – is the case where the egg and sperm are of the commissioning parents and the surrogate mother carries the fertilised egg of the intended parents.Thus, all of the …

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