India Surrogate Mothers

Orissa High Court has recently ruled that female employees who become mothers through surrogacy have the same right to maternity leave and other benefits as provided to natural and adoptive mothers.

The Centre has clarified in the Supreme Court that the surrogacy law says a surrogate mother may not be genetically related to the child born through the process.

In the film, central character Yashoda, played by Samantha Prabhu, becomes a surrogate mother to get money to fund her sister's surgery

Couples who intend to take the surrogacy route to become parents will have to buy a general health insurance coverage in favour of a surrogate mother for a period of 36 months, according to the Surrogacy (Regulation) Rules issued recently.

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2020, allowing any "willing" woman to be a surrogate mother and it proposes that widows and divorced women can also benefit from its provisions, besides infertile couples.

A parliamentary panel has recommended that not only close relatives but any woman who is "willing" should be allowed to act as a surrogate.

Rajya Sabha members on Wednesday sought changes in certain provisions of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2019, which mandates that only a close relative can be a surrogate mother and provisions of five years of marriage for commissioning parents.

The police rescued 47 surrogate mothers from a two-floor fertility clinic in Hyderabad on Saturday in posh Banjara Hills area of Hyderabad, after they suspected the clinic was being run illegally.

Mumbai: Inside a bungalow in a plush residential area of Gurugram, on the outskirts of Delhi, a group of women in different stages of pregnancy share the hope their babies will be delivered safely – or risk losing the chance of big money, forever. Successful pregnancies have never been more important at this surrogacy centre where every bed is ta...

New Delhi: Women rights activists showed concern that implementing ban on commercial surrogacy will be challenging. They said that government’s ban was a step in the right direction but it may push surrogacy underground. India opened up to commercial surrogacy over a decade ago. The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Surrogacy (Regulation)...

A draft law that aims to make surrogacy 'legal and transparent' in India was today cleared by the cabinet. The Surrogacy Bill, 2016 seeks to protect the rights of both the surrogate and the child. The government has announced that it will take up the Bill in the Winter Session of the parliament later this year.

A draft bill which aims to safeguard the rights of surrogate mothers and make parentage of such children legal was today cleared by the Union Cabinet.

Surrogate and commissioning mothers may get six months maternity leave, as per new rules being formed by the central government for its women employees.

There is an urgent need for guidelines for the "unregulated" surrogacy industry in India to protect rights and health of surrogates as well as intended parents from exploitation, says acclaimed British Indian actor and writer Meera Syal whose new novel deals with the subject.

A woman who works for a government-run firm in Kerala has gone to court after she was refused maternity leave to look after her baby because she is not the child's biological mother.

Orissa High Court has recently ruled that female employees who become mothers through surrogacy have the same right to maternity leave and other benefits as provided to natural and adoptive mothers.

The Centre has clarified in the Supreme Court that the surrogacy law says a surrogate mother may not be genetically related to the child born through the process.

In the film, central character Yashoda, played by Samantha Prabhu, becomes a surrogate mother to get money to fund her sister's surgery

Couples who intend to take the surrogacy route to become parents will have to buy a general health insurance coverage in favour of a surrogate mother for a period of 36 months, according to the Surrogacy (Regulation) Rules issued recently.

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2020, allowing any "willing" woman to be a surrogate mother and it proposes that widows and divorced women can also benefit from its provisions, besides infertile couples.

A parliamentary panel has recommended that not only close relatives but any woman who is "willing" should be allowed to act as a surrogate.

Rajya Sabha members on Wednesday sought changes in certain provisions of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2019, which mandates that only a close relative can be a surrogate mother and provisions of five years of marriage for commissioning parents.

The police rescued 47 surrogate mothers from a two-floor fertility clinic in Hyderabad on Saturday in posh Banjara Hills area of Hyderabad, after they suspected the clinic was being run illegally.

Mumbai: Inside a bungalow in a plush residential area of Gurugram, on the outskirts of Delhi, a group of women in different stages of pregnancy share the hope their babies will be delivered safely – or risk losing the chance of big money, forever. Successful pregnancies have never been more important at this surrogacy centre where every bed is ta...

New Delhi: Women rights activists showed concern that implementing ban on commercial surrogacy will be challenging. They said that government’s ban was a step in the right direction but it may push surrogacy underground. India opened up to commercial surrogacy over a decade ago. The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Surrogacy (Regulation)...

A draft law that aims to make surrogacy 'legal and transparent' in India was today cleared by the cabinet. The Surrogacy Bill, 2016 seeks to protect the rights of both the surrogate and the child. The government has announced that it will take up the Bill in the Winter Session of the parliament later this year.

A draft bill which aims to safeguard the rights of surrogate mothers and make parentage of such children legal was today cleared by the Union Cabinet.

Surrogate and commissioning mothers may get six months maternity leave, as per new rules being formed by the central government for its women employees.

There is an urgent need for guidelines for the "unregulated" surrogacy industry in India to protect rights and health of surrogates as well as intended parents from exploitation, says acclaimed British Indian actor and writer Meera Syal whose new novel deals with the subject.

A woman who works for a government-run firm in Kerala has gone to court after she was refused maternity leave to look after her baby because she is not the child's biological mother.