New Delhi: Coming as a boon to single women, the Centre announced on Thursday that surrogacy laws will be changed soon which will allow them to become surrogate mothers. But the new law will not allow NRIs and foreigners to hire surrogate mothers.
According to the new law, 23 years will be the minimum age to become a surrogate mother.
The move comes after the National Commission for Women organised a national consultation on surrogacy which was attended by the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Women and Child Development.
In the last few years, India has emerged as a leader in international surrogacy and a sought after destination in surrogacy-related fertility tourism. Indian surrogates have been increasingly popular with couples in industrialised nations because of the relatively low cost.
Indian clinics are at the same time becoming more competitive, not just in the pricing, but in the hiring and retention of Indian females as surrogates. Clinics charge patients roughly a third of the price compared with the same procedure in the UK.
But issues pertaining to parentage, sex selection, birth certificate, right to privacy of donor etc have necessitated these changes in the law.
Surrogacy is a process where women are paid to carry another couple's genetic child through a process of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and embryo transfer.
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