Surrogacy in India - Myths about India Surrogacy

Recently Indian health ministry changed the surrogacy laws, making unmarried couples and same sex partners unable to get surrogacy services in India.  You can read more about changed in Indian surrogacy laws at http://medical-tourism-guidance.blogspot.com/2013/03/medical-tourism-for-surrogacy-in-india.html

In this post I am going to tell you about some myths about surrogacy in India.  I’d love to hear your comments regarding the myths.

Myths about India Surrogacy

Surrogates Exploitation in India: This has been true in the initial years of surrogacy but its not true nowadays. Indian surrogacy laws are very clearly defined now and they are to make sure that there is no exploitation of the surrogates. All the surrogates have their own child so they are already aware of what’s involved during their life as a surrogate.  Moreover surrogates are well educated and capable of taking their independent decision just like the surrogates in any other country like US, UK, Australia etc.

Surrogates are from poor family and uneducated: Its not true and above all the couple is shown the full profile of the surrogate, so nothing like he being from poor family or uneducated.

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Andhra town is world’s rent a womb mart

Guntur abuzz with ads offering ‘services’ for childless couples. THE rent-a-womb business is alive and kicking in the poverty-stricken town of Guntur, located in coastal Andhra Pradesh.

In fact, promises to deliver through surrogacy are being dangled to childless couples just about everywhere — from advertisements in the print media and active offers on dedicated websites, to posters, pamphlets, hoardings and even crude enticements on autorickshaws.

With clinics converting it into a commercial activity, the practice of surrogacy — a couple hiring the womb of another woman to bear their child — has now turned into an attractive business proposition from being a hush- hush affair earlier.

The worrying aspect of the trend is that irrespective of norms and health parameters, several women of the region from the underprivileged section of society are being lured by unscrupulous agents to rent their wombs. Predictably, the response is huge. On any day, many childless parents can be seen making enquiries about surrogacy at fertility clinics in Guntur.

“Last year, we performed 10 surrogate deliveries. At present, we are taking care of four such cases and another three are under observation,” Dr S. N. Umashankar, a local In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and surrogacy expert, revealed.


Read more at:http://in.news.yahoo.com/andhra-town-is-world%E2%80%99s-rent-a-womb-mart.html