The Government of India has decided to pass a law which bans commercial surrogacy. I think it's good that surrogacy is being regulated because it is often misused and overused. A few unscrupulous clinics were doing too much surrogacy when it wasn't called for, simply in order to make more money, and this needed to be controlled. When this abuse was highlighted by media reports, the politicians resorted by adopting their standard knee-jerk reflex response, and decided to ban commercial surrogacy completely.
At first blush, this seems like a sensible solution, because it is intended to protect poor women who could otherwise be exploited to serve as surrogates. However, it's a poorly drafted law for multiple reasons. For one, it paints all IVF doctors as being crooked, which is extremely unfair. They could easily have had a consultation with ethical, upright IVF doctors who have been doing…
