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Surrogacy rules changed in India: Who will benefit?

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. "In case when the District Medical Board certifies that either husband or wife constituting the intending couple suffers from a medical condition necessitating use of donor gamete, then surrogacy using donor gamete is allowed," news agency PTI reported citing the notification issued on Wednesday. The notification added that the “surrogacy using donor gamete is allowed subject to the condition that the child to be born through surrogacy must have at least one gamete from the intending couple”. For single women As per the notification, "single women undergoing surrogacy must use self-eggs and donor sperm to avail surrogacy procedures."

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