Surrogacy tourism in India – the other side of the coin

Hundreds married couples come to India every year to hire a surrogate mother at a low price. The local cost of surrogacy services is only U.S. $7.5 thousand, which is 5 time less than in USA.

Commercial surrogate motherhood was legalized in India in 2002 for the purpose of development of medical tourism. This business, however, is not that simple…

Set as an example can be the case of Nicolas and Leonard Balaz, the twins, whose parents are a couple from Germany, while a surrogate mother is a young Indian woman from the state of Gujarat. The boys were denied German citizenship, since their biological parents were not recognized as the sole lawful parents. (Following prolonged proceedings, the twins were granted temporary visas to enter Germany). Apart from it, Indian citizenship may not be granted to children born by local surrogate mothers.

The surrogate motherhood draft act has been established. It is not the fact, however, that human reproduction clinics will respect it. It is believed by many medical organizations that the act does not take their interests into account. At all accounts, the act will likely to improve the condition of Indian surrogate mothers and protect their interests at the time of payment and medical servicing. The act also sets limits to the number of surrogate pregnancies in respect of one woman (not more than 5), as well as to the age of a surrogate mother (not older than 35). The new act will also provide for the new binding condition: the country of biological parents must grant its citizenship to a child born by an Indian surrogate mother.

 

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