Bill in the house: No more commercial surrogacy

NPnews24 Online, New Delhi: Soon Commercial Surrogacy will be banned and only close relatives will be permitted to act as surrogates to infertile couples for ‘ethical altruistic’.

In the recent bill passed by government introduced the surrogacy (Regulation) bill in the Lok Sabha that also provides for constitution of surrogacy boards at national and state levels, also intending couple should not abandon such child.

The bill seeks to ‘allow ethical altruistic surrogacy to the intending infertile Indian married couple between age of 23-50 years and 26-55 years for female and male. Due to the lack of legislation, India became surrogacy hub for past few years for many and it had been misused by many surrogacy clinics. The bill was passed in 2018 but could not get nod from Parliament.