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Couples look forward to Surrogacy Regularization in India
In Oct 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that "commercial
surrogacy is legal and an industry in India", making it a legally
protected and viable option for international couples. Now after 12 years, surrogacy in India has become a debatable sector.
Compensation, age and consent of the surrogate mother – the three
major factors to be considered in surrogacy bill. Winter session of parliament
is close and everyone has crossed fingers for a benchmark decision on surrogacy
in India. Surrogacy in India has always been a controversial subject with
activists blaming foreigners for exploiting poor women.
Recently, Department Of Health Research (Health Ministry) V
M Katoch said to a leading newspaper that the final draft bill is now lying
with the law ministry and, after being cleared, will be presented before the
cabinet for approval.
It is a clear hint that the most debated practice in India
is on the lines of regularization. In past 12 years, India helped thousands of
couples to have children but the recent turn of events has put the practice
under the scanner. Tightening of laws is suggested by activists and doctors to
make the process transparent. India now has only the guidelines the Indian
Council for Medical Research (ICMR) released in 2002.
The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation)Bill, 2013, it 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. The bill will also provide a framework for letting foreigners use
Indian surrogate mothers.
In 2012, an Australian couple left behind one of the twins
born to an Indian surrogate mother because they could not afford to bring up
two children back home. Earlier in 2010, a German couple, Jan Balaz and Susan
Lohle, had to wait for two years before they could take their twin babies home.
Their twin sons, Nikolas and Leonard, were trapped in a citizenship limbo ever
since an Indian surrogate mother gave birth to them in February 2008. The boys
were refused passports by their parents` homeland because German nationality is
determined by the birth mother. The issue was finally settled after a prolonged
court battle.
According to a 2012 study by the Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII), an estimated 10,000 foreign couples visit India for
reproductive services and nearly 30 percent are either single or gay. In
earlier versions - in 2008 and 2010 - the bill relied on contract law to
establish a relationship between the commissioning parents and the clinic. In
the current version, the bill states that a professional surrogate will be
hired by a government-recognized ART Bank and not private fertility clinics,
which is the current practice. The compensation, as per the 2013 draft, will be
a private negotiation between the surrogate mother and commissioning parents.
- 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.
In earlier versions—in 2008 and 2010—the ART Bill relied on
contract law to establish a relationship between the commissioning parents and
the clinic. In the current version, the Bill states that a professional
surrogate will be hired by a government-recognized ART Bank and not private
fertility clinics, the current practice.
- The
compensation, as per the 2013 draft, will be a private negotiation between the
surrogate mother and commissioning parents. Currently, IVF clinics decide the amount and pay
the surrogate mother a portion.
Last year, Home
Ministry laid down certain norms on surrogacy as an immediate attempt
to define the contours ofsurrogacy
activities in India,
- Home
Ministry lays down conditions for grant of visa to foreign couples
commissioning surrogacy in India
- Home
Ministry has already announced that it will not give tourist visas to foreigner
nationals coming to India for commissioning surrogacy, of which
several cases have been reported.
- In order to
ensure that the surrogate mother’s interests are protected, the Ministry said,
such a visa may only be granted if certain conditions are fulfilled — the
foreign man and woman must be duly married for at least two years.
- The
Ministry will also insist that the Indian embassy or Foreign Ministry of the
country concerned enclose an acknowledgement, along with the visa application,
that the country recognises surrogacy and that the child/children to be born to
the commissioning couple through the Indian surrogate mother will be permitted
entry into their country as a biological child/children of the couple.
- Besides,
the couple should produce a duly notarised agreement between the applicant
couple and the prospective Indian surrogate mother. The Ministry has informed
the Indian missions abroad that the commissioning couple needs to be told that
they must obtain “exit” permission from the Foreign Regional Registration
Offices before leaving India for their return journey.
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 -
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Thursday, 6 November 2014
Cross Border Surrogacy
Cross-border legal and ethical problems has recently become a
concern for Indian surrogacy sector especially after a Thai surrogate mother
bore twins and the Australian parents took the healthy child and left the one
with Down syndrome behind in Thailand.
Surrogacy is having another woman bear a child for someone
else. Surrogacy in India and its increasing popularity has increased the
movement of couples towards the country for assistance. However, the thriving
business comes with risks of to devious online brokers, questionable private
clinics, thriving underground market.
Why cross-border arrangements are risky?
In different countries, laws are different even medical
practices, customs or codes of ethics. Looking at the positive aspects of
surrogacy, it empowers women to choose whether to participate and gain
financial compensation for their valued service. Surrogacy also permits
otherwise childless men and women to have children.
In vitro fertilization is fertilization in a laboratory by
mixing sperm with eggs surgically removed from an ovary followed by uterine implantation.
IVF in Raipur offers assistance to the couples with egg donation, IUI and other
fertility techniques.
Most common are two types of “traditional surrogacy” where
the surrogate is the biological mother and the sperm is from the intended
father or a donor. The other four types are “gestational surrogacy” where the
surrogate is unrelated to the baby with the egg coming from the intended mother
or donor, and the sperm is from the intended father or donor. When both the egg
and sperm are from donors, the baby is genetically unrelated to the surrogate,
the intended mother or the intended father. In addition, the actual parentage
is often undisclosed or unknown.
Australia and the United States, relevant laws vary by state
or province and type of surrogacy. For example, while New Jersey, Pennsylvania
and Virginia permit altruistic surrogacy and Arizona, Michigan and Nebraska
forbid surrogacy— California, Connecticut and Massachusetts are
surrogate-friendly, making them magnets for couples from other places with
stringent anti-surrogacy laws.
How to go about surrogacy
in India?
Generally, the couples considering surrogacy option are not
sure how to go about the process, from where to start or who to consult. They
might find it difficult to list down authentic surrogacy clinics from the list
of numerous faux and dead links all over the internet which might lead them
nowhere. For them, there are few things they should consider before selecting a
particular clinic.
1. Ensure that you
establish a direct contact with the doctor and not through any agencies.
2. Read the success stories of the
particular clinic you are considering for surrogacy assistance.
3. Find out whether the doctor writes
blogs for the patients.
4. Try to resolve your queries and
question everything before deciding. (Ask about how surrogate would be
arranged? Egg donation process?)
5. Calculate the cost and
compare it with other clinics.
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
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Monday, 3 November 2014
Who Should Opt for Surrogacy?
1. In Vitro Fertilisation IVF in Raipur
When a woman fails to conceive a baby due to some reasons, she requires the help of another woman, who carries her baby in her uterus through the process called surrogacy. The carrier woman is known as a surrogate and she has to undergo In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) in order to place the fertilized egg into the surrogate's uterus. Before opting for surrogacy in India, couples are screened for,
a) Congenital absence of uterus (Mullerian agenesis)
b) Surgical removal of the uterus (hysterectomy) due to
cancer, severe hemorrhage in Caesarian section or a ruptured uterus.
2. A woman whose uterus is malformed (unicornuate uterus, T
shaped uterus, bicornuate uterus with rudimentary horn) or damaged uterus (T.B
of the endometrium, severe Asherman’s Syndrome) or at high risk of rupture,
(previous uterine surgeries for rupture uterus or fibroid uterus) and is unable
to carry pregnancy to term can also be recommended IVF surrogacy.
3. Women who have repeated miscarriages or have repeated
failed IVF cycles may be advised IVF surrogacy in view of unexplained factors
which could be responsible for failed implantation and early pregnancy wastage.
4. Women who suffer from medical problems like diabetes,
cardio-vascular disorders, or kidney diseases like chronic nephritis, whose
long term prospect for health is good but pregnancy would be life threatening.
5. Woman with Rh incompatibility.
Is Surrogacy for you?
For some couples opting for surrogacy is a very straight
forward decision, while, for others there are lots of things to be considered
and thought about before taking the decision. There are lots of complex issues
involved. It is an emotional roller coaster ride for the couple, the families
and friends. It is a decision where the 'right' and the 'wrong' are very
individual things. An infertility specialist or a counselor can help the couple
seeing things in the right perspective. Other options such as, adoption or
further infertility treatment can also be considered.
Traditional Surrogacy
1. Sometimes, the intended mother fail to produce mature
eggs, that is, ovaries do not produce normal follicles due to ovulatory
dysfunction. In such situations, the IUI procedure is followed on surrogate
mother. In this procedure, the infertility specialist will transfer sperm that
is taken from the biological father and will subsequently transfer that sperm
into the surrogate's uterus so that fertilization may take place naturally.
2. A traditional surrogate will undergo insemination at the
time of her natural ovulation, occasionally necessitating medication prescribed
by her doctor to make sure that she does ovulate.
3. The child will have a genetic link to his father, since
the father's sperm was used in creating the baby. There is no genetic link to
the intended mother; which is a primary difference between traditional and
gestational surrogacy.
4. Therefore, with traditional surrogacy, the surrogate is
also the biological mother of the child. This type of surrogacy is typically
only used if the biological mother's egg and/or the biological father's sperm
are unable to be used.
5. Generally, people over the age of 50 or women who are
unable to use their own eggs use traditional
surrogacy since the option frees the intended parents from age-related
limitations.
In gestational surrogacy, the egg and sperm of the intended
parents are used to form an embryo through a process called in vitro
fertilization and later it is transferred in surrogate’s uterus to carry it for
pregnancy. In most of the cases, it will take between three and five days for
the embryos to develop in the laboratory prior to transferring them to the
surrogate. Then, once the embryo has successfully been placed into the
surrogate's uterus, the surrogate will carry the embryo through the pregnancy term
until its birth.
1. With gestational surrogacy, the surrogate's eggs are not
used at all. Therefore, the child will not be related to the surrogate
biologically.
2. It allows a couple to have a biologically related child
by using a surrogate as the carrier for the couple's embryo.
3. The aid of a gestational surrogate is needed when a woman
is unable to conceive naturally or through fertility treatments.
4. This option is explored after fertility drugs or in-vitro
fertilization have proven unsuccessful, or if either party has irregularities
in their reproductive organs that complicate conception.
5. The rate of success when using in vitro fertilization
will depend upon several factors such as the age and health of the biological
mother who is providing the eggs.
6. The process of gestational surrogacy can take several
years including the amount of time to find an adequate surrogate, extraction of
viable eggs and sperm can take several weeks from intended parents, preparation
of surrogate for pregnancy with
a hormone regimen that can take several months, implanting the embryos and
additional nine months for the gestational surrogate to carry the baby.
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
Pahlajani Surrogacy India: Surrogacy Regularization in India
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...
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
Visit Our Websites
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)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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