<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11892747" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword>'s commercial <keyword id="12102752" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="surrogacy" source="Orion">surrogacy</keyword> market was estimated to be worth $375 million before it was banned.</li><li>As people look overseas, the former Soviet state of <keyword id="11931393" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="georgia" source="Orion">Georgia</keyword> is emerging as a favorite option.</li></ul>Thousands of aspiring parents from around the world have turned to Dr. Nayana Patel for help.She has delivered more than 1,000 babies from surrogates at the Akanksha Clinic in Anand, in western India. Her prominence within Indian surrogacy led to her being interviewed on "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW6xM2dZO3Q">The Oprah Winfrey Show</a>" in 2006.But she told Insider that she hadn't had any new work since February. The future of an industry she helped build might lie 2,000 miles away.<div type="image" title="Photo of a woman seated in a chair with her arms across her front" height="274" width="365" msid="92087109" hostid="261"></div>A law banning commercial surrogacy, passed by India's Parliament in December, has upended the sector in a nation that for years was a surrogacy capital. Surrogacy in India was a $375 million business spread across <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410397.2021.1878674">3,000 clinics</a> before the ban, doctors, researchers, and legal experts who spoke with Insider estimated.That's almost a tenth of what Global Markets Insights estimates is a <a href="https://www.gminsights.com/industry-analysis/surrogacy-market">$4 billion</a> global market that's expected grow by almost a third by 2027.But the ban is pushing India's chunk of that market — which relies on <a href="https://nhrc.nic.in/sites/default/files/Report_NHRC_Surrogacy_24122018.pdf">affluent Indians</a> at a time when <a href="http://www.ijstr.org/final-print/feb2020/Infertility-An-Alarming-Situation-In-India.pdf">one in six</a> urban couples struggles with infertility — overseas. The former Soviet republic of Georgia, a rare nation where commercial surrogacy is legal and relatively inexpensive, is emerging as a favored destination.Patel recognizes that this means she might soon be flying to Tbilisi, Georgia's capital, to take on cases. "It's only natural for Indian couples to now want to go there for surrogacy," she said. "And clinics there will either bring in experts like me from India or hire local doctors."<a href="https://www.artbaby.in/">ARTbaby</a>, whose motto is "Your baby, our ART," is a surrogacy center<a href="https://www.artbaby.in/"></a> headquartered in New Delhi that's pitching its <a href="https://www.surrogacycentregeorgia.com/surrogacy/georgia-a-surrogacy-in-india-alternative/">Tbilisi facility</a> as an "alternative" for Indians. When asked how it was adapting its business in the wake of the ban, another Indian service provider, Vinsfertility, pointed to its ability to offer surrogacy services in other countries, specifically mentioning Georgia, which it said in a statement to Insider offered a "guaranteed surrogacy program."The promises are working.Five months ago, Ravinder Singh couldn't have placed Georgia on a map, he joked to Insider during an interview. Since India's ban, he and his wife, Meena — who has had three miscarriages — have spent nights poring over surrogacy options outside the country.They settled on Georgia, and in February, they flew to Tbilisi to check out different centers. The couple, who still haven't told most people in their conservative family that they're contemplating surrogacy, told relatives that they were going on a holiday.Once there, they found they weren't alone. "In every single center that we visited, we either met or heard of other Indian couples interested in surrogacy," Singh said. India was the <a href="https://gnta.ge/statistics/">13th-largest source</a> of visitors to Georgia in the first four months of 2022, up from 15th in 2019, Georgian government data indicated — though it's unclear how many of those travelers were exploring surrogacy options.India's ban follows a decade-long debate in the country over the ethics of allowing people to pay women to carry their children.Before the ban, each surrogacy in the country cost about $20,000, said Amit Karkhanis, a lawyer in Mumbai who specializes in contracts between couples and surrogates. In 2012, researchers from The Lancet <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)61933-3/fulltext">estimated</a>, that about 25,000 children were born annually to surrogates in India, and that almost half of them were for foreign parents.In 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government banned foreigners from using Indian women as commercial surrogates. But the substantial domestic market was left untouched — until last year.The total ban "killed" the domestic surrogate market, said Hari Ramasubramanian, the chief consultant at the Indian Surrogacy Law Centre, a legal consultancy that specializes in the sector.For Georgia, the timing of the ban couldn't have been better. Two alternatives, Nepal and Cambodia, banned the practice in 2015 and 2016, respectively. India's total ban came into effect just as Ukraine, one of the world's most popular surrogacy destinations, was invaded by Russia. And while some Indian service providers are eyeing Kenya — where Vinsfertility also has a center — it can't offer a Georgia-like legal shield for those seeking surrogates. "It's murky in Kenya. There's no law recognizing surrogacy, but officials turn a blind eye," said Sharmila Rudrappa, the director of the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas at Austin and author of "Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in India."By contrast, couples face no legal risks in Georgia, she added. Surrogacy there costs more than in India — with one provider citing a price range of <a href="https://www.caresurrogacy.com/care-georgia-program/">$30,000</a> to $39,000 — but significantly less than in the United States, where prices average between <a href="https://www.sensiblesurrogacy.com/surrogacy-costs/">$120,000</a> and $150,000, one group estimated.Georgia legalized surrogacy in 1997. Ravi Sharma, the director of ARTbaby, cited the way Georgia's laws favored adoptive parents as a pull factor: "The surrogate mother has no rights over the child. There is no mention of surrogacy or the surrogate mother on the birth certificate. There is no requirement for a lawyer."<div type="image" title="Man sitting at a desk looking to camera with a laptop in front of him" height="500" width="750" msid="92087112" hostid="261"></div>Other legal experts who spoke with Insider agreed with Sharma's interpretation of the Georgian law — which also helped the country attract some of the international surrogacy market after India's 2015 law barred foreign couples from using Indian surrogates.Many Indians were introduced to Georgia's surrogacy clinics when Lisa Ray, a supermodel and Bollywood actress, <a href="https://www.vogue.in/content/lisa-ray-just-became-a-mother-to-twins-born-via-surrogacy">spoke publicly in 2018</a> about using a Georgian surrogate to deliver her twins. Karkhanis said parents might be vulnerable to legal challenges once they return home if their child was born through commercial surrogacy in another nation. But Georgia's clear laws eliminate that concern, Ramasubramanian said.India's ban doesn't apply to "altruistic surrogacy," where someone carries a couple's child out of goodwill, rather than for payment. But that could be a shield for coercion and exploitation in a society as unequal as India, said Shiromi Chaturvedi, a psychologist whose work and research focused on surrogates."This is going to drive the industry underground," she said. "And surrogates won't even have the little protection they previously had from legal contracts."Once again, Georgia might be the beneficiary as an attractive alternative for Indian surrogates hoping for better pay in safer conditions, said Rudrappa, adding that this could expose vulnerable women to the risks of trafficking."Their shift to Georgia is real," she said. "I'm already starting to hear about it."

India banned commercial surrogacy. Now, parents are flocking to Georgia, a rare nation where it's legal &mdash; and relatively cheap.

<ul><li>India intends to ban <keyword id="659688" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Commercial-Surrogacy">commercial surrogacy</keyword> and recognise altruistic surrogacy through close relatives. </li><li>The business of surrogacy tourism is estimated to be worth $2.3 billion per annum. </li><li>An Indian surrogate can make as much as ₹1.2 million per birth. </li></ul>Thousands of infertile couples across the world are ready to pay millions to rent a womb. That yearning has turned commercial surrogacy into a lucrative business with thousands of fertility clinics cropping up across the country. The business of surrogacy tourism is estimated to be worth $2.3 billion per annum. An Indian surrogate can make as much as ₹1.2 million per birth — high income for women who otherwise work as domestic help et cetera. Women from economically backward sections earn 10 years worth their salary by renting their wombs. However, a debate over unethical practices prompted the government to put an end to the exploitation of poor women. The Surrogacy Bill, 2019 is one of the key bills that will be introduced in parliament’s winter session starting from November 18, 2019. The Surrogacy Bill, 2019 The Surrogacy Bill, 2019 aims to ban commercial surrogacy and allow altruistic surrogacy for Indian citizens. Altruistic surrogacy says that surrogates should not be monetarily rewarded. However it covers medical expenses and insurance during the pregnancy. In 2016, the government presented the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 and received several recommendations from the Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare. Later, the bill lapsed when the Lok Sabha dissolved. The government then replaced the 2016 bill with The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2019 and introduced it in the Lok Sabha on July 15, 2019. No single parent, unmarried, live-in or gay couples please The Surrogacy Bill, 2019 doesn’t allow unmarried, gay, live-in couples or single parents to go in even for an altruistic surrogacy. The couple will have to prove that they are married and one of them medically unfit to reproduce naturally. The bill also prohibits couple having biological children to use surrogacy. “The certificate of eligibility to the intending couple is issued upon the fulfilment of the following conditions: (i) the couple being Indian citizens and married for at least five years; (ii) between 23 to 50 years old (wife) and 26 to 55 years old (husband); (iii) they do not have any surviving child (biological,adopted or surrogate), except if the child is mentally or physically challenged or suffers from a life threatening disorder; and (iv) such other conditions that may be specified through regulations,” said the bill. Surrogate mothers should be close relatives The bill also lays down several eligibility criteria to be a surrogate mother. The bill says surrogate mothers can rent womb only once. And they should have given birth to children before that. Surrogate mothers cannot be a foreign national, or a non-resident Indian. “To obtain a certificate of eligibility from the appropriate authority, the surrogate mother has to: (i) be a close relative of the intending couple; (ii) be an even married woman having a child of her own; (iii) be 25 to 35 years old; (iv) not have been a surrogate mother earlier; and (iv) have a certificate of medical and psychological fitness. Further, the surrogate mother cannot provide her own gametes for surrogacy,” said the bill. A blowback to the IVF centres The bill will be a setback for all the IVF centres in the country which earn millions through facilitating surrogacy. These IVF clinics charge between ₹10-12 lakhs from a couple for an entire surrogacy package. After India legalised surrogacy in 2002, the business of fertility clinics flourished and surrogacy tourism boomed. The country now has 3,000 clinics and then unregulated industry is wider and deeper, spread across the country.

India moves to regulate the thriving business of commercial surrogacy

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11894337" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="russia" source="Orion">Russia</keyword> has introduced a bill to ban foreigners from using Russian surrogate mothers.</li><li>A co-author of the bill said the move is necessary to protect children born in the country.</li></ul>Russia has introduced a bill to ban foreigners from using Russian surrogate mothers in a bid to end a practice that critics say commercializes the birth of children.According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-moves-bar-foreigners-using-its-surrogate-mothers-2022-05-24/">Reuters,</a> the bill was passed "nearly unanimously" in Russia — where paid <keyword id="12102752" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="surrogacy" source="Orion">surrogacy</keyword> is legal — following its first reading on Tuesday. The bill needs to undergo two more readings before it is reviewed by the upper house of Russia's parliament and signed into law. One of the bill's co-authors said the new legislation is needed to protect children born in the country, per Reuters. Vasily Piskaryov, a lawmaker from the ruling United Russia party, said it was difficult to keep track of where the babies born to surrogate mothers go after birth. "We don't know who their parents are, their so-called 'mom' and 'dad,' and why they are purchasing a baby," he said.Piskaryov added that around 40,000 babies born to Russian surrogate mothers had been raised by foreign parents outside of the country."Why should we spend our funds on resolving the demographic problems of other countries?" he said, calling for all babies born in Russia to be automatically given citizenship.Paid surrogacy is legal only in a few places, including Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and some US states, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/29/up-to-1000-babies-born-to-surrogate-mothers-stranded-in-russia">per The Guardian</a> — and the practice has not been without controversy.Besides the welfare of surrogate children, critics worry that it could lead to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/health-47826356">the exploitation</a> of the most vulnerable people. In 2020, as many as 1,000 babies born to surrogate mothers in Russia for foreign families were stranded in the country after borders were closed to stem the spread of Covid, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/29/up-to-1000-babies-born-to-surrogate-mothers-stranded-in-russia">The Guardian reported</a>. Nearly 100 such babies born that year <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/babies-ukraine-surrogate-waiting-hotel-parents-coronavirus-travel-restrictions-2020-5">were also left stranded in Ukraine</a> for similar reasons.

Russia moves to stop foreigners from using the services of its surrogate mothers

<ul class="summary-list"><li>"Fast 9" star <keyword id="670067" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jordana-Brewster">Jordana Brewster</keyword> told Insider she never took maternity leave while using a surrogate.</li><li>Brewster thought it was OK because she wasn't carrying and felt "less than" in some way.</li><li>She advises moms to recognize it's OK to take that time "because you're not less than" anyone else.</li></ul>Jordana Brewster didn't take maternity leave when she was expecting. "<a href="https://www.insider.com/category/the-fast-and-the-furious">The Fast and the Furious</a>" franchise star welcomed two sons, Julian, 7, and Rowan, 4, via a gestational surrogate, after going through several rounds of failed in vitro fertilization.Looking back, she told Insider she should have taken it."I was like, 'No. No, I don't deserve maternity leave," Brewster told Insider, recalling a friend who sat her down and recommended taking time. "I'm not carrying... It's going to be OK that I'm going to go back to work. I just sort of took it for granted that that was something I needed at the time.""I would advise moms that are going through something similar, not to cheat themselves out of that because you're not less than," Brewster said of the importance of taking leave, if you're able to do so. "I felt like I was less than in some way, which is really sad as I look back at that."While more employers <a href="https://advocacy.shrm.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SHRM_Paid_Leave_US_Report_Final.pdf?_ga=2.14851571.455176042.1619546851-984864571.1619546851">are offering paid leave</a>, the US is still the only developed country <a href="https://www.insider.com/maternity-leave-around-the-world-2018-5#united-states-0-weeks-42">without a federal policy</a> that guarantees it.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-not Kristen (@KirstenAcuna) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1387134135282638851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2021</a></blockquote>Brewster recently partnered with Clearblue on a campaign called <a href="https://www.clearblue.com/conceivinghood">Conceivinghood</a> where she and others discussed the difficulties they faced on their journeys to become pregnant in a virtual panel timed to <a href="https://infertilityawareness.org/">National Infertility Awareness Week</a> (NIAW), which Insider attended.Their goal is to create a safe space for <a href="https://www.clearblue.com/conceivinghood/share-your-story">others to discuss their "trying to conceive" stories</a> to normalize conversations about the difficulties some people face while trying to start or grow a family. "I wish that this existed when I was going through my journey," said Brewster, who started trying to have children at 30 and thought it would be simple because her mother had no trouble conceiving. "I really didn't know where to turn, who to turn to, who to talk to because most of the people around me were having a super easy time conceiving."<div type="image" title="Jordana Brewster Image" height="600" width="800" msid="82281750" hostid="261"></div>During the panel, Brewster said she felt like she was in the minority when she wasn't getting pregnant."The journey to becoming a parent can take years and years and years," Brewster told Insider, adding that we should be discussing "conceivinghood" in the same ways that we discuss motherhood, fatherhood, and <keyword id="25831" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="parenthood">parenthood</keyword>. "I think it's really important to take that into account."After conversations with doctors, Brewster and her then-partner found gestational <keyword id="6375354" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="surrogacy">surrogacy</keyword>, when a baby isn't related to the person who gives birth, was going to be the best route for them. It took over two years before her oldest, Julian, was born.<blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:800; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px); data.width~800;"><div style="padding:8px;"><div style="background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4537037037% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"></div></div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CGLQoY3HWxY" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_blank"></a> <p style=" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;">A post shared by jordanabrewster (@jordanabrewster)<time style=" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;" datetime=""></time></div></blockquote>When asked if there's a stigma or misconception about surrogacy that others may have, Brewster said people sometimes make incorrect assumptions about why people may choose to use a surrogate."I think people sometimes take for granted - they're like, 'Oh my God, you probably chose to go through gestational surrogacy,'" Brewster said. "It wasn't something that you had to do. It was something I had to do. So I think there's that assumption. It's not really a misconception, it's just an assumption people make and that can be a really hurtful assumption."<div type="image" title="jordana brewster 2" height="1031" width="1904" msid="82281754" hostid="261"></div>Brewster added that she was lucky enough to not only have access to a gestational surrogate and be able to afford it, but to live in a state where it's legal.In the US, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/longer-outlier-york-ends-commercial-surrogacy-ban-75888960">according to ABC News</a>, only Louisiana and Michigan have laws prohibiting paid gestational surrogacy. A statute in Nebraska declares contracts "<a href="https://connect.asrm.org/lpg/resources/surrogacy-by-state?ssopc=1">void and unenforceable</a>." <a href="https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-gestational-surrogacy-now-legal-new-york-state">As of February 2021</a>, New York state ended a longstanding ban on commercial surrogacy."I had a wonderful relationship with my gestational surrogate. She walked me through so much of it because I was so green," Brewster said. "I'm very, very grateful for her and a wonderful advocate for us. I think sometimes people don't hear that about the journey. So I'm really happy to shed light."

'Fast 9' star Jordana Brewster didn't think she deserved to take maternity leave while using a surrogate, but wants moms 'not to cheat themselves' out of that time

<div class="KonaFilter image-container float_right"><div class="image"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/530796d4ecad049a3f7100ec-1200-924/baby-m.jpg?maxX=480" border="0" alt="Baby M" width="480" />AP Photo/Mike DererMary Beth Whitehead and her husband, Richard, leave the courthouse in Hackensack, N.J., Sept. 10, 1986. Whitehead acted as a paid-surrogate mother for William and Betsy Stern but then refused to give up custody of the baby girl.</div></div>New York is one of a handful of states that <a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/news/2007/12/17/3758/guide-to-state-surrogacy-laws/">bans surrogate pregnancies</a>, thanks to a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/29/nyregion/at-the-baby-m-visitation-hearing-bitter-and-anguished-testimony.html">nasty 1980s court battle</a> that pitted a baby's biological father against the surrogate who decided she wanted to keep that baby after all.
In a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/fashion/In-New-York-Some-Couples-Push-for-Legalization-of-Compensated-Surrogacy.html?hpw&amp;rref=fashion&amp;_r=0">New York Times article</a> on Thursday, gay male couples who wanted children in the Empire State bemoaned the fact that they couldn't hire women to bear their children in their home state. New York's unusual 1992 <keyword id="6355470" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Law">law</keyword> barring commercial surrogacy contracts is a legacy of the so-called "Baby M" case, The Times notes.
The "Baby M" drama actually took place in New Jersey, and that state's highest court ultimately ruled in 1988 that paying women to bear children was illegal and "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/04/nyregion/excerpts-from-decision-by-new-jersey-supreme-court-in-the-baby-m-case.html">potentially degrading to women</a>." While the case was in the Garden State, New Yorkers became obsessed with it, too. It eventually <a href="http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/bill/S2547-2013">helped spur the Empire State</a> to ban paid surrogacy altogether.
The case centered around a surrogate named Mary Beth Whitehead, who agreed to bear a child for a biochemist named William Stern and his wife, a pediatrician named Elizabeth. Elizabeth had a mild form of multiple sclerosis and worried that a pregnancy could paralyze her, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/06/nyregion/surrogate-seemed-perfect-father-of-baby-m-testifies.html">the Times previously reported</a>.
Whitehead agreed to a $10,000 payment and was artificially inseminated with William Stern's sperm. (Whitehead's own egg was used.) Whitehead changed her mind and refused to sign away her parental rights. A drawn-out and emotional custody fight ensued.
William Stern testified in January 1987 that Whitehead had <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/06/nyregion/surrogate-seemed-perfect-father-of-baby-m-testifies.html">seemed like a "perfect" surrogate</a>. But a week after the child's birth, Whitehead went to the couple's house "sobbing openly" and saying she wanted the baby back, according to the biological father's testimony.
"Everything had gone wrong," Stern said, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/06/nyregion/surrogate-seemed-perfect-father-of-baby-m-testifies.html">according to The Times</a>.
While New Jersey's Supreme Court ultimately ruled that the surrogacy contract was illegal and restored the parental rights of Whitehead, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/04/nyregion/surrogate-deals-for-mothers-held-illegal-in-jersey.html">the court granted custody</a> to Stern.
''I'm really happy,'' Whitehead <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/11/nyregion/court-restores-baby-m-visits-by-whitehead.html">told The New York Times</a> after the state high court's ruling. ''It's one step, and that's all I asked for. I just love the Supreme Court.''
As the legal parent, Whitehead was allowed to seek visitation with the child - a privilege the Sterns tried to revoke.
''She hates my guts,'' <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/29/nyregion/at-the-baby-m-visitation-hearing-bitter-and-anguished-testimony.html">Stern reportedly said</a>, at a tense visitation hearing after the New Jersey Supreme Court's ruling. "The one thing I've learned is I can't trust Mary Beth. Mary Beth lies.''
These days, surrogacy agreements are probably less emotionally fraught than they were in the 1980s. That's mainly because most people seeking surrogates - often infertile couples and gay men - will take an egg from one woman, fertilize it, and implant it in another woman. While the surrogate might get attached to the baby she's carrying, that child is not biologically hers.

This Nasty Court Case Helped Make Surrogacy Illegal In New York

<ul><li>As many as 22 bills are to be tabled this session, which intends to protect women, senior citizens, and transgenders and turn adoption easier. </li><li> Added to that, the most discussed bill that will be tabled will be that of data protection that has been buzzing ever since the Aadhar scandal broke out. </li><li>The Narendra Modi-led government is on a warpath to amend many laws this winter session.</li><li> Some of them intend to modernize laws with changing times and empower the central government. </li></ul> After passing 28 bills in the budget session of the Parliament including the controversial abrogation of <keyword id="405091" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Article-370">Article 370</keyword>, the Narendra Modi-led government is on a warpath to amend many laws this winter session. Some of them intend to modernize laws with changing times and empower the central government. As many as 22 bills are to be tabled this session, which intends to protect women, senior citizens, and transgenders and turn adoption easier. Added to that, the most discussed bill that will be tabled will be that of data protection that has been buzzing ever since the Aadhar scandal broke out. The winter parliament will seek a way to end the many river disputes between states. However, the winter session also has controversial bills which can empower the central government to cancel an OCI (Overseas Citizen of India) card. Here is a list of major bills to be introduced in the Winter Session of Parliament The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019 It protects the rights of transgender persons and provides for their welfare. <keyword id="250148" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="20" keywordseo="The-Bill">The Bill</keyword> was introduced in the Lok Sabha on July 19,2019 and passed by the Lok Sabha on August 5. The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2019 The bills bans commercial surrogacy in India. Constitutes the National Surrogacy Board and respective State Surrogacy Boards to regulate the practise of surrogacy. Introduced in Lok Sabha on July 15, 2019 and passed by the Lok Sabha on August 5. The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill, 2019 The bill empowers the District Magistrate instead of the Court to reduce delays for receiving adoption order. The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens (Amendment) Bill, 2019 The Bill aims to make life easier for senior citizens by amending the existing act to make it contemporary as per the changing socio-economic needs. The Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 The Bill if it turns into a law will protect and regulate all aspects of personal data, and promote the growth of digital economy. The Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import,Export, Sale, Distribution, Storage and Advertisement) Bill, 2019 It will replace an ordinance and prohibit the production, manufacture, import, export, sale, distribution, storage and advertisement of e-cigarettes, vaping products and similar devices. The Healthcare service personnel and Clinical Establishments (Prohibition of violence and damage to the property) bill, 2019 It will prohibit violence against healthcare service personnel, and damage or loss of property of clinical establishments. The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 Amends the definition of illegal migrant, reduces the residency requirement to obtain Indian citizenship through naturalisation, and empowers the central government to cancel the registration of an Overseas CItizen of India (OCI) card. The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine Bill, 2019 It repeals the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970 and sets up a National Commission to regulate the education and practise of Indian systems of medicine. It was introduced on Jan 7, 2019 in Rajya Sabha. A standing committee report is pending on the matter. The Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment Bill, 2019 It removes the president of the Indian National Congress as a trustee and empowers the central government to remove nominated members. Introduced in Lok Sabha on July 8, 2019, and passed by the Lok Sabha on August 2. The Dam Safety Bill, 2019 As the country suffered through many floods this year, the bill intends to manage its dams better. The Bill provides for the surveillance, inspection, operation and maintenance of specified dams across the country. It was introduced in the Lok Sabha on July 29, 2019 and passed by it on August 2. The Inter-State River Water Disputes (Amendment) Bill, 2019 It provides for a permanent tribunal with multiple benches and a Dispute Resolution Committee for adjudication of inter-state river water disputes. It was introduced in the Lok Sabha on July 25, 2019 and passed by the Lok Sabha on July 31. The Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2019- Amends the <keyword id="7183713" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Arms-Act-1959">Arms Act, 1959</keyword> to enable the law enforcement machinery to curb crimes related to illegal arms. The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2019 Establishes the National Board, the state boards and the National Registry to regulate and supervise assisted reproductive technology clinics. Establishes assisted reproductive technology banks to prevent misuse and promote ethical practices. The Aircraft (Amendment) Bill, 2019 The bill intends to meet the recommended standards and practices laid down by ICAO for the safety and security oversight function. The Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulations) Amendment Bill, 2019 Amends section 5(1), section 6(1), and section 17A (2A) of MMDR Act, 1957 to remove the requirement of prior approval of the central government before the grant of a mining lease. The National River Ganga (Rejuvenation, Protection and Management) Bill, 2019 It prescribes measures to prevent, control and abate pollution in the river Ganga and ensure its continuous and adequate flow.

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India banned commercial surrogacy. Now, parents are flocking to Georgia, a rare nation where it's legal and relatively cheap.

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India moves to regulate the thriving business of commercial surrogacy

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Russia moves to stop foreigners from using the services of its surrogate mothers

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'Fast 9' star Jordana Brewster didn't think she deserved to take maternity leave while using a surrogate, but wants moms 'not to cheat themselves' out of that time

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This Nasty Court Case Helped Make Surrogacy Illegal In New York

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Here is a list of major bills to be introduced in the Winter Session of Parliament

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