Overseas Citizens of India (OCIs) and Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) can fly to the country without a medical visa for commissioning surrogacy, read the headline of a leading newspaper two days ago. The newsflash described how the only permission from Regional Registration Office (FRRO) or the Foreigners’ Registration Office (FRO) would do to allow a couple search for surrogates in India.
Industrialized countries like India attract more reproductive tourists mainly because it offers low cost package with almost negligible legal intervention. India makes to the list of countries with flexible laws involving IUI, IVF and fertility treatments. In India, Raipur is one of the destinations that have shed the veil of stigma attached to surrogacy process. Indian reproduction farms are hogged international attention because of the diluted surrogacy laws. Patients from topologically separated countries are seen rummaging the search engines for surrogate mothers in India.
When a woman bears and delivers a child for another couple or person it is called surrogacy. It can be defined under six heads, first is Traditional Surrogacy (TS) that involves natural or artificial insemination of a surrogate mother with the intended father's sperm via IUI, IVF or home insemination.
Another is Traditional Surrogacy and Donor Sperm (TS/DS) in which a surrogate mother is artificially inseminated with donor sperm via IUI, IVF or home insemination. The third type can be defined under the head Gestational surrogacy (GS) when the intended mother conceive due to hysterectomy, diabetes, cancer, or related diseased and her egg and the intended father's sperm are used to create an embryo (via IVF) that is transferred into and carried by the surrogate mother. Another type of surrogacy is called Gestational surrogacy and egg donation (GS/ED) in which mother is unable to produce eggs, the surrogate mother carries the embryo developed from a donor egg in her womb that has been fertilized by sperm from the intended father.
If there is no intended father or the intended father is unable to produce sperm, the surrogate mother carries an embryo developed from the egg of the mother who is unable to carry a pregnancy herself) and donor sperm then it called Gestational surrogacy and donor sperm (GS/DS). With this method, the child born is genetically related to the intended mother and the surrogate mother has no genetic relation. (Courtesy: www.wikepedia.com )
Surrogacy is called Gestational Surrogacy and Donor Embryo (GS/DE) when the intended parents are unable to produce sperm, egg, or embryo, the surrogate mother can carry a donated embryo (often from other couples who have completed IVF that have leftover embryos). The child born is genetically related neither to the intended parents nor the surrogate mother.
Clearly, surrogacy has sketched a diagram of positivity for infertile parents, who have equally chances of having a family compared to fertile ones.
Dr Neeraj Pahlajani
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