Ms Swaraj, it is about surrogacy and not morality
miscarry, so hormones and drugs keep her going. It would mean starting the whole process again and cost money.
The surrogate’s uterus is prepared by giving her the two hormones estrogen and progesterone. A third injectable drug leuprolide is sometimes added to prevent her period from starting at the wrong time and rejecting the embryo.
At least three or four embryos are implanted to ensure at least two are “viable”. And once the baby or babies begin to grow in the womb, again it’s the mother that nourishes them.
Surrogates are usually women who have healthy children of their own, which clinicians take as proof of their being fertile. Between home and the new baby, the money at the end of the year is the only thing that keeps her going.
So please do not mix up surrogacy for adoption. It violates another person’s body for your own gain. It is not the same thing.
India has no law regulating surrogacy and with most developed countries banning commercial surrogacy, thousands of the world’s more than 50 million infertile couples come to India.
“It’s about time we stopped the exploitation. The Indian Council of Medical Research’s national guidelines 2005 (for accreditation, supervision and regulation of ART clinics) in India for surrogacy and other ART procedures are not legally-binding, so unscrupulous people did what they wanted,” said N B Sarojini, director, of Sama Resource Group on Women and Health.
In the absence of a law, an Australian couple who had twins abandoned their baby son and went home with their daughter because they decided they just wanted a girl.
“The new regulation will bring in transparency and make it easier to audit centres that do not follow best practices and parents that break the law,” said Dr Archana Dhawan Bajaj, consultant obstetrician, gynaecologist, fertility & IVF expert, The Nurture Clinic.