Pahlajani Surrogacy India: Surrogacy Regularization in India: Couples across the world, be it India or Australia, wish to expand their progeny. If infertile, they would consider In Vitro Fertilisati...
Monday, 3 November 2014
Surrogacy Regularization in India
Couples across the world, be it India or Australia, wish to
expand their progeny. If infertile, they would consider In Vitro Fertilisation,
Surrogacy or Adoption as the three options have a child. While thousands
of couple journey miles and miles to find the most apt surrogacy clinic that
matches their criteria, the surrogacy industry bloats with both right and wrong
constraints. My opinion is not contrary to those who criticise the unregulated
surrogacy sector in India. Anything unregulated is dangerous. Voids in
surrogacy laws are filled with exploitation of surrogate mothers, reaping
wrongful advantage of commercialized sector and compromising quality of medical
procedure. Such voids are harmful even for the doctors who are genuinely helping
couples with infertility are suspected of bending the laws. These reputed
doctors have repeatedly become the victims to calumny.
Recently, Union Minister for Health, Dr Harsh Vardhan's wrote
an editorial, published on The Hindustan Times, about surrogacy titled 'Right to
motherhood, right to a mother'. In his article, he discusses how the
unregulated surrogacy industry in India poses a great threat to the country's
poor, disenfranchised women, who are compelled to become surrogate mothers to
battle poverty. He writes:
"A woman’s body goes hormonal change as she is prepared
for intrauterine insemination or intra-cervical insemination or, less commonly,
intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection or in-vitro fertilisation. She is also put
through many other risks. For instance, under the jungle raj that prevails in
this trade, the testing of the donor for various diseases is mostly absent.
Also, there is wide ignorance of the fact that the chances of conception
through artificial insemination are at best 35% and that too for women under
30."
My thoughts echo with Dr Vardhan’s on surrogacy. There are
human rights activists, who have spontaneously displayed their rage over the
issue. We, at Pahlajani Surrogacy Care,
not only obey the rules but ensure that every surrogate mother gets the best
care.
Surrogacy homes ensure monitored care of surrogate mothers throughout
the pregnancy, for them to incubate the fertilized eggs of infertile couples.
The day surrogacy care opened the doors of commercialization in India that
added gross benefit to countries exchequer. However, the lucrative trend bought
addition responsibilities for doctors to ensure finest services to both medical
tourists and surrogate mothers. Unlike other clinics, which were brought under
the legal scanner for scrimping on surrogate pay,Pahlajani IVF Clinic ascended towards
safeguarding the rights of surrogate under the legal norms of the country.
Sizable surrogacy programmes in Pahlajani IVF Clinic recruits women
suitable to become a carrier for infertile couples. The clinic ensures legitimate incentive to surrogates against
a yearlong benevolence of a surrogate. In the latest crafted legislation of
Ministry of Home Affairs, New Delhi ensures notarized agreement between
prospective surrogate and applicant couple to ensure the safeguard of interests
of both. With monitored nurturing to assure smooth pregnancy, Pahlajani Test Tube Baby Center ensures after pregnancy checkups for
healthy living of a surrogate.
We wait for the surrogacy bill to be tabled this winner
session of parliament.
Dr Neeraj Pahlajani
Obstetrician & IVF Specialist
(MS, DNB, FMAS, DRM - Germany)
MBBS - Lady Harding Medical College - New Delhi
MS - Obstetrics and Gynecology (PGI - Rohtak)
DNB - Obstetrics and Gynecology
FMAS - World Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons
DRM - Diploma in Reproductive Medicine (Germany)
Fellow in IVF & Embryology – (USA)
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Pahlajani
Test Tube Baby Centre
(Mata
Laxmi Nursing Home)
Anupam
Nagar, Near T.V. Tower, Raipur (Chhattisgarh) India
Phone:
+91- 771- 4052967, +91- 771- 4053285 Mobile: +91- 9873083334, +91-
9329630455
Email -
contact@raipurivf.com
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Friday, 31 October 2014
Surrogacy Process Overview
IVF in Raipur at
Pahlajani Pregnancy Care offers two
types of surrogacy — traditional surrogacy and gestational surrogacy.
In traditional surrogacy, a surrogate mother is artificially
inseminated, either by the intended father or an anonymous donor, and carries
the baby to term. The child is thereby genetically related to both the
surrogate mother, who provides the egg, and the intended father or anonymous
donor.
In gestational
surrogacy, an egg is removed from the intended mother or an anonymous donor
and fertilized with the sperm of the intended father or anonymous donor. The
fertilized egg, or embryo, is then transferred to a surrogate who carries the
baby to term. The child is thereby genetically related to the woman who donated
the egg and the intended father or sperm donor, but not the surrogate.
Traditional surrogacy
is more controversial than gestational surrogacy, in large part because the
biological relationship between the surrogate and the child often complicates
the facts of the case if parental rights or the validity of the surrogacy
agreement are challenged. As a result, most states prohibit traditional
surrogacy agreements. Additionally, many states that permit surrogacy agreements
prohibit compensation beyond the payment of medical and legal expenses incurred
as a result of the surrogacy agreement.
Basic Surrogacy Qualifications
There are a few basic qualifications required for a woman for
becoming a surrogate mother.
- Should have carried and delivered at least one child
- Should have had pregnancies that were all free of complications and were full-term
- She should be in good physical and mental health
- She should be between 21 and 35 years of age
- She should not be a habituated smoker or drinker
At Pahlajani
Surrogacy Care, the surrogates are kept under best medical care.
They live in an environment of peace and sisterhood under the roof of Pahlajani Surrogacy Home, where they are
given best medical assistance.
Indian surrogacy is often targeted about the authenticity of
contract signed between commissioning parents and surrogates. The fact cannot
be denied that there are several clinics which do not adhere to the provisions
of remunerations. However, Pahlajani
Surrogacy Care ensures that the rights of a surrogate, who is
assisting a childless couple to complete their family.
Pahlajani Test Tube Baby Center is the only center in
Chhattisgarh having an in-house embryologist and does not conduct IVF/ICSI in
batches. With the number of successes in helping the childless couples in
having their babies by providing best medical assistance to both surrogate and
commissioning couple, we have climbed another step in the ladder of human
connection. Knowing that giving birth for someone else is a job only a selfless
human being with most giving heart can perform, Pahlajani Surrogacy Care derives its
confidence from surrogates for showing their faith and performing commendable
jobs for couples.
Dr Neeraj Pahlajani
Obstetrician & IVF Specialist
(MS, DNB, FMAS, DRM - Germany)
MBBS - Lady Harding Medical College - New Delhi
MS - Obstetrics and Gynecology (PGI - Rohtak)
DNB - Obstetrics and Gynecology
FMAS - World Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons
DRM - Diploma in Reproductive Medicine (Germany)
Fellow in IVF & Embryology – (USA)
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Pahlajani
Test Tube Baby Centre
(Mata
Laxmi Nursing Home)
Anupam
Nagar, Near T.V. Tower, Raipur (Chhattisgarh) India
Phone:
+91- 771- 4052967, +91- 771- 4053285 Mobile: +91- 9770997645, +91-
9329630455
Email -
contact@raipurivf.com
Visit Our Websites
Saturday, 25 October 2014
Why Surrogacy In India is Debated?
An Australian baby born to a surrogate Indian mother was
abandoned in India. It has highlighted some tension in India as well as Australia.
The news hit the headlines after the Australian parents abandoned the twin
because they wanted just the one child and were unprepared for the birth of
twins.
The Australian High Commission in India tried persuasion and
confirmed the veracity of the reports, but could not help because surrogacy is
a personal matter. Indian Surrogacy sector has always been under media target for
multiplicity of reasons. The Australian couple’s decision to fly away without
the child raked another controversy.
Such cases have made surrogacy a debatable issue in India. Sometimes,
it is some surrogacy clinics, some doctors or the commissioning parents, who
have often gathered flak for their wrong practices and decision. Surrogacy, if
practiced through right means without shortchanging or cheating anyone, can be
a boon for human beings to gift their reproductive capabilities. Women in
India
agree to become gestational surrogates with dual reasons, to earn money for
supporting their families and to help the couples in completing their families.
It is often perceived as exploitation of women working in
surrogacy industry. Reproduction is a gift and women offering help to someone
to share the gift. IVF in India and IVF in Raipur has been an example of successful surrogacy assistance throughout the years. The fact cannot be denied that there is an urgent need to
regularise the sector for transparent ART procedure. Tight laws and strong
legislation would restore faith of both surrogate mothers and commissioning
parents in the process. Recently, the Australian Federal Circuit Court Chief Judge
John Pascoe has called for a national enquiry into international commercial
surrogacy.
Commercial surrogacy was made legal in India in the year 2002.
Looking at the high success rate and the number of doctors righteously working
to help the couples, the commercial surrogacy is both beneficial for surrogates
and couples.
There is an increase in global infertility rate and couples
want to have babies with their own genes. Legal landscape surrounding surrogacy in India is
cultivated on child-protection perspective. It was the day in 2002 on which surrogacy
was legalized in India, when legal authorities started striving to push the
sector on legal tracks.
India is abode for thousands of surrogate mothers, who are
bearing children for Indian as well as foreign childless couples. The sector
has widened its horizon in years, adding new criterions to safeguard the rights
of surrogate mothers in India,
recipient couples and the children born through surrogacy.
Throughout the years many questions are raised about surrogacy in India. Be it the reputed news
dailies, or channels, the debate continues over the surrogacy as unregularised
sector. This sometimes becomes the reason for infertile couple to question the
legitimacy of the process and think whether surrogacy
is India would safeguard legal rights or not.
The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs has continued reassessing
the surrogacy laws to plug the loopholes and form robust guidelines.
Later, the original Assisted Reproductive Technology Billwas drafted in 2008 with an aim to regulate surrogacy
in India. The bill defines the responsibilities and duties of a surrogate
mother, those seeking her services and the Indian facilities that provide such
services.
Again in 2010, the ART Bill was redrafted to provide
sufficient protection for surrogate mothers. The decision was taken after the
Planning Commission recommended substantive changes in the legislation and
advised the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) against pushing the
draft Bill till the process of consultations was satisfactorily
concluded.
If the bill is passed, the foreigners seeking a surrogate in India will have to provide
documentary proof that they would be able to take the child back to their
country. They must also appoint a local guardian who will be legally
responsible for the surrogate till the child is handed over to its parents. The
draft bill would outlaw surrogacy by a relative who is not from the same
generation as the woman who intends to keep the baby.
Few days back, the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC)
formulated rules and regulations on surrogacy and formed a committee to
monitor. Under the newly formed rules, MMC has the power to suspend the license
of the doctor guilty of malpractice.
The concerns with regard to the unregulated industry,
unethical practices, especially lack of protection of the surrogate women’s
health and rights, sex selection, lack of employment opportunities, and other
health and rights issues of children born through surrogacy arrangements, and
issues related to their citizenship are being addressed, and the ministry has
been making strides in regularizing
surrogacy.
The bills are formed with a view to protect and safeguard
the rights and health of the women who undergo these ART procedures, surrogates, egg donors and
of the children born through these techniques.
Recently, the Ministry of Home Affairs formed new guidelines
pertaining to surrogacy. The seven revised guidelines ensured protection of
rights of surrogate, recipient parents and the child born through surrogacy. Through
the guidelines, it was ensured that the couples seeking surrogacy assistance inIndia are not in any kind of dilemma about the process. The contract is signed
between the surrogate and the recipient couple to ensure protection of rights. Therefore,
the Indian ministry continues to revise and reassess the laws surrounding
surrogacy consider the high surrogacy
success rate.
Dr Neeraj Pahlajani
Obstetrician & IVF Specialist
(MS, DNB, FMAS, DRM - Germany)
MBBS - Lady Harding Medical College - New Delhi
MS - Obstetrics and Gynecology (PGI - Rohtak)
DNB - Obstetrics and Gynecology
FMAS - World Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons
DRM - Diploma in Reproductive Medicine (Germany)
Fellow in IVF & Embryology – (USA)
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Pahlajani
Test Tube Baby Centre
(Mata
Laxmi Nursing Home)
Anupam
Nagar, Near T.V. Tower, Raipur (Chhattisgarh) India
Phone:
+91- 771- 4052967, +91- 771- 4053285 Mobile: +91- 9770997645, +91-
9329630455
Email -
contact@raipurivf.com
Visit Our Websites
Friday, 24 October 2014
What Is India Doing to Regularise Surrogacy
Pregnancy involves the whole person, body and mind, at every
conscious and unconscious moment for nine months. The act of procreation, the primal
behavior of human beings, is a gift which has helped thousands of infertile
couples through Surrogacy in India. It
is often termed as womb-renting, which represents the final conquest of the couples,
who have failed to conceive despite several attempts.
Unending quest for a child has been answered by surrogate mothers. However,
becoming a surrogate mother is often looked down as a way for women in socially
vulnerable positions to sell fundamental human rights. But, in 12 years of its
legal existence in India, surrogacy has emerged as the most preferred option
for couples to complete their families. Surrogacy has not only given an answerto fertility problems but also has harnessed the technology to enhance
reproductive freedom.
Woman undergoes enormous emotional challenges posed by the
unrequited desire to have a child of one's own. Even the surrogacy in Raipur has witnessed a positive
boast from all directions.
However, some social workers and feminist organization have condemned
surrogate motherhood. They have argued
that surrogacy exploits the woman’s body and her reproductive organs, and
violates poor women’s human rights. The industry has been criticised for
operating in a regulatory vacuum, and while there are some rules for people who
take the journey to India, it is still a minefield for many unsuspecting
parents.
If we consider the feminist approach, we would have to think
that surrogacy means exploiting a woman’s body and her rights. Surrogacy has
always been debated on ethical and legal issues. Even the argument from
equality, specifically LGBT equality, has denied dying.
Recently, the Australian couple's move to abandon one of
their twins born via a surrogate mother in India has raised new controversy for
surrogacy in India. The case dates back to 2012 although it came to light
recently after a report by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The report
said the couple returned home with the baby girl while her brother was left
behind.
Taking a strict cognisance, the Health Ministry has proposed
new moves to regulate surrogacy and in-vitro
fertilization (IVF) in India. The new rules will make couples mandatory to
take custody of their child born through surrogacy. The bill also seeks to
address issues like how many pregnancies can be allowed for a surrogate mother,
the age of the mother and due compensation to be paid to her.
However, the new rules may bar foreigners from having
surrogate babies in India. The Bill will also allow single parents to have
children through surrogates. The Bill states that health insurance and regular
tests will be make mandatory for surrogates. The proposed Assisted Reproductive
Technology (Regulation) Bill is likely to be introduced in the Winter Session
of Parliament.
India is taking a move to regularise the industry for
convenience of both surrogate mother and commissioning parents.
Dr Neeraj Pahlajani
Obstetrician & IVF Specialist
(MS, DNB, FMAS, DRM - Germany)
MBBS - Lady Harding Medical College - New Delhi
MS - Obstetrics and Gynecology (PGI - Rohtak)
DNB - Obstetrics and Gynecology
FMAS - World Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons
DRM - Diploma in Reproductive Medicine (Germany)
Fellow in IVF & Embryology – (USA)
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Pahlajani
Test Tube Baby Centre
(Mata
Laxmi Nursing Home)
Anupam
Nagar, Near T.V. Tower, Raipur (Chhattisgarh) India
Phone:
+91- 771- 4052967, +91- 771- 4053285 Mobile: +91- 9873083334, +91-
9329630455
Email -
contact@raipurivf.com
Visit Our Websites
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Why Surrogacy in India?
In India, modernity has trampled over traditional taboos. It is proven by the fact that none of the family members, even in-laws, of the surrogates interviewed in Hyderabad objected to their decision as long as it brought returns.
Surrogacy involves the carrying of an embryo and the
subsequent birthing of a baby by one woman, referred to as the surrogate, for
another individual or couple. There are two primary types of surrogacy -
traditional and gestational.
With gestational surrogacy, because the sperm and the egg
both come from the intended child's biological parents, the surrogate will not
be biologically related to the child and is only used for carrying purposes.
This can be of extreme importance to many parents.
Using In Vitro
Fertilization (IVF), it typically takes between three and five days before
the embryo develops in the lab before it can be implanted into the uterus of
the surrogate. Once the surrogate has been impregnated, she will then carry the
embryo until the time of the child's birth. Low
cost surrogacy has given a chance to
many couples for starting their families.
Because many women are capable of producing healthy eggs, yet are not able to become pregnant, they are ideal candidates to choose a gestational surrogate, as are those who may be able to become pregnant but have a history of miscarriage.
What is Egg Donation?
A woman desiring to be an egg donor provides several eggs during one cycle to the intended parents to help them create their child. Egg donation is highly desirable for intended parents, regardless of whether the intended mother or a gestational surrogate will ultimately carry the pregnancy because the donated eggs belong solely to the intended parents immediately when the doctor harvests them from the egg donor’s ovaries. The egg donor has no claim or control over the eggs or resulting embryos, regardless of whether they will be fertilized with the sperm of the intended father or donor sperm, and regardless of whether the resulting embryos will be transferred to the uterus of the intended mother or a gestational surrogate.
Dr Neeraj Pahlajani
Obstetrician & IVF Specialist
(MS, DNB, FMAS, DRM - Germany)
MBBS - Lady Harding Medical College - New Delhi
MS - Obstetrics and Gynecology (PGI - Rohtak)
DNB - Obstetrics and Gynecology
FMAS - World Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons
DRM - Diploma in Reproductive Medicine (Germany)
Fellow in IVF & Embryology – (USA)
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Pahlajani
Test Tube Baby Centre
(Mata
Laxmi Nursing Home)
Anupam
Nagar, Near T.V. Tower, Raipur (Chhattisgarh) India
Phone:
+91- 771- 4052967, +91- 771- 4053285 Mobile: +91- 9873083334, +91-
9329630455
Email -
contact@raipurivf.com
Visit Our Websites
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Why Surrogacy Needs Regulation?
While there are activists to fight for the rights of
surrogate mothers, no is nobody has raised voice for the newborns. Yes, there
are couples who have abandoned their children born through surrogacy in India. One of the recent cases
was reported when an Australian couple abandoned one of the twins born through
surrogacy in India. In the absence of any legal safeguard, malpractices such as
this keep happening, says experts. There are many issues besides sex selection
and exploitation of the poor surrogate mothers. There are a number of factors
emerging from every side to taint surrogacy process. While surrogacy is a
process to help an infertile couple to have their own children, there are
clinics, couples and middlemen engaged in illegal activities. This cycle will
continue till the surrogacy sector is regularised.
In 2014, India recorded around 20,000 approx surrogacy
centers. However, only 270 have been enlisted by Indian Council of Medical
Research (ICMR) on the basis of infrastructure and trained manpower. India
is fast being recognised as an attractive option for commercial surrogacy
centre, human rights activists maintain that while commercial surrogacy in
itself is welcome where persons unable to have children are aided by willing
surrogates to have their biological children, problem comes in due to the
exploitative nature of the business and lack of regulation in the industry.
No fixed compensation structure, no laws that cater to the
health and number of births that a surrogate can support and usually incomplete
advertisements of the services by medical establishments work against the
interest of the women involved in the case.
After regular attempts to regulate the surrogacy sector in India, an AssistedReproductive Technologies (Regulation) Bill, 2013—an attempt by India to regulate commercial surrogacy—is
likely to be presented to the cabinet on Thursday before being introduced in
Parliament.
After making necessary modifications in the earlier versions
of the bill passed in 2008 and 2010, the cabinet approved it with the vetting
from Law Ministry and Planning Commission.
Below are the few highlights of Assisted
Reproductive Technologies(Regulation) Bill, 2013,
- The Bill addresses all issues
pertaining to ethics in commercial surrogacy.
- The Bill is only to help
infertile couples and should act as a deterrent to commercial surrogacy.
The CII study estimated that nearly 10,000 foreign couples visit India for reproductive services and nearly 30% are either single or homosexual.
- However,
the Surrogacy Bill will disqualify homosexual couples, foreign single
individuals and couples in live-in relationships from having children through
surrogate mothers in India. The law also imposes age restrictions on
surrogate mothers.
- Homosexuals
and foreign single individuals are barred from seeking surrogacy assistance in India.
- Other than this,
many restrictions imposed are not encouraging for business.
The recent Thailand controversy has brought the
infertility clinics across the globe under scanner. Throughout the years, surrogacy in India remained
unregulated but the day bill was cleared in cabinet it gave hopes to hundreds
and hundreds people in India as well as overseas. It was a time
between the years 2008 and 2013, when surrogacy practice in India was
questioned under the heads of social and ethical issues.
Considering the fact that growing surrogacy tourism inIndia and
increase in number of patients from overseas to commission surrogacy due to low cost surrogacy in India, the surrogacysector needed to be regularised. In India, the practice of commercial
surrogacy started in the year 2002. Twelve years after the specialists gave
birth to thousands of babies through this process, still the controversy about
commercialisation denies dying. Surrogacy was commercialised for equal
opportunity to surrogate mothers to support their families with the money they
get. However, the tales about exploitation of women in the name of surrogacy
have grabbed the headlines every now and then.
Dr Neeraj Pahlajani
Obstetrician & IVF Specialist
(MS, DNB, FMAS, DRM - Germany)
MBBS - Lady Harding Medical College - New Delhi
MS - Obstetrics and Gynecology (PGI - Rohtak)
DNB - Obstetrics and Gynecology
FMAS - World Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons
DRM - Diploma in Reproductive Medicine (Germany)
Fellow in IVF & Embryology – (USA)
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Pahlajani
Test Tube Baby Centre
(Mata
Laxmi Nursing Home)
Anupam
Nagar, Near T.V. Tower, Raipur (Chhattisgarh) India
Phone:
+91- 771- 4052967, +91- 771- 4053285 Mobile: +91- 9770997645, +91-
9329630455
Email -
contact@raipurivf.com
Visit Our Websites
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