The government said commercial surrogacy has become a USD 2 billion illegal industry and a means to exploit vulnerable women even as it vowed not to let women in India become “baby factories”. Minister of State for Health said commercial surrogacy has also become a means of exploiting children also when they get abandoned. “We want to communicate that surrogacy should be the last option and we in no way are going to promote the idea of commercial surrogacy,” she conveyed.
The minister also spoke on Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill 2016, which was recently approved by the Union Cabinet, and has drawn criticism from several quarters. She said the government is “conscious and sensitive” and various issues which have not been touched so far may be addressed in the course of discussions in the parliament. The bill is yet to be tabled in Parliament and there will be many more rounds of…
