The ART Bill has been in draft form for many years and is finally now going to go to Parliament so that it will soon become a law. The bill was created with good intentions. A lot of IVF clinics in India are of poor quality, and substandard IVF medical care means that infertile couples are often taken for a ride. This is not good for anyone, and because the medical profession hasn't done a very good job at regulating itself, it seems quite logical to introduce a law in order to regulate IVF clinics. Passing laws is a pretty standard, knee-jerk, reflexive response to tackling problems.
After all, if there is a law in the UK which regulates IVF clinics, then how can India lag behind? However, a big problem with this ART bill is that it's not been crafted very well. Perhaps part of the reason is that it's taken over ten years to be actually formulated. IVF technology has progressed…
