Surrogacy Cases

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed a private hospital in Mumbai to file a reply to a petition by a couple seeking permission to complete a surrogacy procedure.

The External Affairs Ministry has taken up with the British High Commission the case of a British couple, who had a baby this May through surrogacy in India and face the prospect of leaving her in an orphanage as they have not been able to procure a passport for her.

A gay couple from the United States won an appeal today for parental rights over a baby born through a Thai surrogate mother in a high-profile case that came to light before Thailand banned commercial surrogacy last year.

Thailand's junta has pledged leniency in the cases of babies born to surrogate mothers, as it looks to toughen rules in the lucrative but largely unregulated industry following a series of scandals.

For thousands of well-off childless couples, the dream of having a baby is often realised in places like Thailand and India. Ready to help them are young women who become paid surrogates, their wombs offered up as vessels that can safely carry the babies until they are born.

Authorities in Thailand are to inspect all the clinics in the country offering surrogacy services to see if they are operating within the law after a Thai woman who carried twins for an Australian couple was left caring for a baby with Down Syndrome.

The case has all the ingredients of a Bollywood thriller involving a doctor in the alleged rape of his hospital nurse, blackmail, artificial insemination and surrogacy claims and the Supreme Court stepped in.

The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed a private hospital in Mumbai to file a reply to a petition by a couple seeking permission to complete a surrogacy procedure.

The External Affairs Ministry has taken up with the British High Commission the case of a British couple, who had a baby this May through surrogacy in India and face the prospect of leaving her in an orphanage as they have not been able to procure a passport for her.

A gay couple from the United States won an appeal today for parental rights over a baby born through a Thai surrogate mother in a high-profile case that came to light before Thailand banned commercial surrogacy last year.

Thailand's junta has pledged leniency in the cases of babies born to surrogate mothers, as it looks to toughen rules in the lucrative but largely unregulated industry following a series of scandals.

For thousands of well-off childless couples, the dream of having a baby is often realised in places like Thailand and India. Ready to help them are young women who become paid surrogates, their wombs offered up as vessels that can safely carry the babies until they are born.

Authorities in Thailand are to inspect all the clinics in the country offering surrogacy services to see if they are operating within the law after a Thai woman who carried twins for an Australian couple was left caring for a baby with Down Syndrome.

The case has all the ingredients of a Bollywood thriller involving a doctor in the alleged rape of his hospital nurse, blackmail, artificial insemination and surrogacy claims and the Supreme Court stepped in.