Bigger India
Only a Surrogacy Act can shut down India’s baby factories
Should NRIs be allowed to use surrogates as mere handmaids, thereby separating babies from their birth mothers, putting oceans of distance between them?
Responding to the question on whether NRIs can use Indian women as ‘gestationers’, the Bengaluru gynaecologist’s voice takes on a nationalist fervour: “The PM says ‘Make in India’. We must allow them.” This is in Delhi, at a parliamentary standing committee meeting for the surrogacy bill which, if and when it becomes law, will regulate surrogacy and outlaw commercialisation.
Surrogacy is part of third-party reproduction which can include oocytes (eggs bought in the baby bazaar), sperm, and embryos.