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रविवार, 27 जनवरी 2013
LEGAL Aspect: Surrogacy Legal In India
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INDIA AS CHOICE FOR SURROGACY TREATMENT WHY
http://www.delhi-ivf.com/india_surrogacy.html
Many people globally are now
choosing India a destination for
Surrogacy. There are many
reasons like:
Surrogacy Treatment is
Economical In India
Best Of IVF Doctor
Easy to find Surrogate Mother In
India
Legal Aspect of Surrogacy as law
are in favour of surrogacy
treatment.
It is estimated that in the
United States, the payment for
a surrogate mother ranges between
US$15,000 and $30,000, the whole
procedure can cost $45,000 to
$60,000+. The fees for the rest
of the process- including fertility
clinics; lawyers; medical fees;
and agencies and/or egg donors
(if they're used) generally
cost more than the fee going
to the surrogate. Gestational
surrogacy costs more than traditional
surrogacy, since more complicated
medical procedures are required.
Surrogates who carry a baby
for a family member (i.e., sister
or daughter) usually do so for
expenses only.
India
is foremost in surrogacy because
of the low cost treatment and
availability of women
opting to be surrogate for childless
couples. In
India
Surrogacy costs about $ 20,000
compared
to
US where
it is $50,000.
Moreover laws in US and UK do
not allow the surrogate woman to
charge the childless couple;
whereas in India there are no
laws preventing a surrogate
woman in accepting compensation
for renting her womb. A
childless couples offer Rs.3,
00,000 to Rs.4,00, 000 or more
and sometimes even funds for
education to the surrogate woman
and there should be laws in
India protecting not just the
couple but also the woman opting
to be surrogate keeping in mind
the economic compensation and
help that it offers to not just
the illiterate women but also
their families in India.
Surrogates may be relatives,
friends, or previous strangers.
Many surrogate arrangements
are made through agencies that
help match up intended parents
with women who want to be surrogates
for a fee. The agencies often
help manage the complex medical
and legal aspects involved.
Surrogacy arrangements can also
be made independently. In compensated
surrogacies the amount a surrogate
receives varies widely from
almost nothing above expenses
to over $30,000 Careful screening
is needed to assure their health
as the gestational carrier incurs
potential obstetrical risks.
SUROGATE MOTHERS IN INDIA
By Abigail Haworth
Customer service, tech support...these days we outsource everything to India. So why not pregnancy? Here is a report on the growing number of Indian women willing to carry an American child.
The midday sun is ferociously hot outside the Akanksha Infertility Clinic, a scuffed concrete building in the small Indian city of Anand. Crammed into a single patch of shade by the gate, a stray cow and a family of beggars — caked so uniformly in dung-colored dust they resemble clay models — wait out the noontime heat.
Inside, the lobby is jammed with barefoot female patients in circus-bright saris. Nurses in white Indian tunics scuttle among them, hollering out names and brandishing medical files. The air smells faintly of sweat and damp cement. On the walls, blurry photos of babies and newspaper clippings celebrate the clinic's raison d'être: "The Cradle of the World" declares one headline.
In this case, the metaphor is also literal. The Akanksha clinic is at the forefront of India's booming trade in so-called reproductive tourism — foreigners coming to the country for infertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization. The clinic's main draw, however, is its success using local women to have foreigners' babies. Surrogacy costs about $12,000 in India, including all medical expenses and the surrogate's fee. In the U.S., the same procedure can cost up to $70,000.
How surrogacy came to be so popular in the choking backwater of Anand, a dairy community with a population of 150,000 in India's western state of Gujarat, is a long story. The short answer is Dr. Nayna Patel, 47, the clinic's director. A charismatic woman with flowing hair and a toothpaste-commercial smile, Patel single-handedly put Anand on the map when, in 2003, she orchestrated the surrogacy of a local woman who wanted to "lend" her womb to her U.K.-based daughter.
The woman gave birth to test-tube twins — her own genetic grandchildren — and the event made headlines worldwide. Afterward, Patel was inundated with requests for surrogacy. She now has 45 surrogate mothers on her books, mostly impoverished women from nearby villages. Twenty-seven of them are currently pregnant, and each will be paid between $5,000 and $7,000 — the equivalent to upwards of 10 years' salary for rural Indians. More than 50 babies have been born at the clinic in the past three years, half to Westerners or Indians living overseas.
Another example of third-world exploitation? Globalization gone mad? The system certainly lends itself to the criticism that foreign women unwilling or unable to pay high Western fees happily exploit poor women at a tenth of the price it would cost back home. The system also avoids the legal red tape and ill-defined surrogacy laws women face in the U.S. (Not to mention that India, unlike some developing countries, has a fairly advanced medical system and doctors who speak English.) Or is it a mutually beneficial relationship?
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