Doctors in India have raised concerns about IVF treatment in the country, after a couple in their 70s had their first child after 46 years of marriage. Daljinder Kaur, who does not have a birth certificate but is thought be in her 70s, gave birth to a boy last month after two years of fertility treatment using donor eggs at a clinic in the northern state of Haryana.
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US Warms to Surrogacy as “Womb-for-rent” Scandals Prompt Crackdowns in Asia
In countries like India, Thailand and Nepal, authorities have become so alarmed by “womb-for-rent” scandals that they have cracked down on commercial surrogacy businesses. But in the U.S., state legislative efforts seem aimed at permitting the practice, not banning it.
Foreign Couples in Limbo After India Restricts Surrogacy Services
Gea Bassett and Doug Smith of Seattle counted on a surrogacy service in India to fulfill their years’ long desire to have a second child. Now the couple is scrambling to recover their frozen fertilized eggs from a Mumbai fertility clinic after the country’s recent move to bar foreigners from hiring surrogate mothers.
PCOS- The Reason for Infertility in Every Fifth Indian Woman
A recent study revealed that about 18 percent of women in India, mostly from the East, suffer from Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), a disorder that causes infertility among women.
American Journalist Reveals Heartbreaking Details About The ‘Dark Underbelly Of India’s ‘Embryo Outsourcing Industry
When journalist Gianna Tobani traveled to India to explore the country’s rapidly growing, yet unregulated, gestational surrogacy industry for HBO documentary series Vice, she didn’t anticipate ‘how dark’ the story would get. For nearly two years, the producer and host has been reporting on current issues across the globe and has covered everything from the detention center at Guantanamo Bay to the effect of climate change on polar bears – but nothing could have prepared her for the moment when someone offered to sell her a baby over dinner while she was working undercover in India.
Thousands of Infertile Australians Paying for Surrogacy in India and Thailand
The booming offshore baby market has become big business with one surrogacy centre in India engaging 600 women to produce babies for wealthy overseas couples.
Surrogacy in India
By Stephen Page
Surrogacy in India is now only available to those who have been married for a minimum of 2 years.
Therefore those married for less than that time, or living together as a couple, same sex couples or single intended …
Government to Offer Free Fertility Treatments to Create Parsi Baby Boom
Each day, gray-haired men and women shuffle into the offices of Bombay Parsi Council, the governing council for the Parsi-Zoroastrians of India. Each day, they huddle behind rickety desks, stacked with dusty ledgers and pictures of their prophet, and pray for Parsi children to boost their rapidly dwindling numbers.
Genital TB in Women Can Cause Devastating Damage: Experts
In contrast to pulmonary TB that affects lungs, genital TB in women is a stealthy invader and when it strikes, it apparently causes devastating damage to the reproductive organs, even before the condition is suspected. Various studies have shown that 5% to 20 % infertile couples in India have genital tuberculosis as their cause for infertility.
India Bars Same-Sex Couples From Using Surrogates
Officials from India’s government announced that gay couples and single individuals from other countries who wish to start a family are prohibited from using the country’s popular surrogate program, New Delhi Television Limited reports.
India’s surrogacy program is a growing industry. Over the past few years, foreign couples, both gay and straight, have taken advantage of the country’s low-cost and legally simple way to access a surrogate. The new measure, however, not only bars same-sex couples from using the surrogates but also leaves gay couples who already started the process in limbo.
The new rules state that only straight couples who have been married for more than two years can use India’s surrogacy program. Notified by the change from a message on the Indian Home Ministry’s website, fertility clinics and LGBT rights activists termed the move “discriminatory”.
“It’s totally unfair – not only for gay people but for people who are not married who may have been living together for years and for singles,” Mumbai gay rights advocate Nitin Karani said.
“Parenting is everybody’s right and now we’re withdrawing that right,” Dr. Rita Bakshi, who is the head of the International Fertility Centre in New Delhi, said. “These rules are definitely not welcome, definitely restrictive and very discriminatory.” Read full article.