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.