Foreign gay couples can't have surrogate babies in India, says Home Ministry directive

Foreign couples in live-in relationships, same-sex couples and singles will not be able to have surrogate babies in India anymore.

A Home Ministry directive on surrogacy is badly affecting foreigners seeking to become parents in India through surrogacy. The Home Ministry has asked the External Affairs Ministry to issue visas only to opposite sex couples seeking to have a surrogate baby in the country. The ministry has further said such couples should be married for at least two years.

Though there is no law on surrogacy in India, the Indian Council of Medical Research has drafted Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2010 which deals with the issue. According to the Bill, assisted reproductive technology will be available to all persons, including single persons, married couples and unmarried couples, a member of the drafting committee said.
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Vietnam considers legalizing surrogacy for humanitarian purposes Via Weecaresurrogacy USA

Vietnam’s Ministry of Justice is considering legalizing surrogacy among other proposed changes to the country’s 13-year-old Family and Marriage Law.
Duong Dinh Hue, head of the civil and economic desk at the ministry, said at a Tuesday meeting that the ministry aims to amend the law in a “fundamental and comprehensive” way, Tuoi Tre reported.
Tuong Duy Luong, vice presiding judge of the Supreme People’s Court, said surrogacy is not a simply a legal issue, but a sensitive social concern.
Luong said the country should recognize the service for humanitarian purposes, as there are many women who are unable to become pregnant due to medical reasons. “They are the disadvantaged. It’s inhuman if we do not support them.”

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Surrogacy India - Baby boom: Indian women giving birth to U.S. babies

A lot of businesses go to India for inexpensive labor and it turns out American couples are doing the same. One village has become a center for cut-rate surrogacy, offering young women who will be carrying babies to term.



For some couples surrogacy is their only chance to create a child. Each year hundreds of Americans go to India for the service.
Dana and Sumanth Chandra have been trying to have a baby ever since they married 14 years ago in Chicago.
They believe their newborn son Ethan is a miracle -- because doctors in the United States told Dana she'd never have a child.
"I could just spend my entire life just standing right here," she says while looking at her baby son.
The couple finally realized their dream of starting a family by traveling 8000 miles to India -- the country where Sumanth grew up.
Ethan was born to a surrogate mother at a clinic in the dusty town of Anand -- a hub in India's multimillion dollar surrogacy industry.
An embryo created from the Chandra's own sperm and egg was implanted in an Indian woman -- who was paid to carry their child.
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Surrogacy India - Our Surrogacy Adventure in Mumbai

Our Surrogacy Adventure in Mumbai

Two Guys from San Diego on their way to Parenthood

 

I will try to open the first act of our blog by introducing ourselves with a few words. We are a gay couple from San Diego, and we are on our way to fulfilling one of our dreams: becoming parents. After a few ups and downs, we came to the conclusion that Surrogacy would be our best option and, after a few more ups and downs, we decided that we would hire WeeCare Partners USA to fulfill our dream.

We are now 18 weeks pregnant.

Surrogacy in India is not for the faint of heart. Like all the people who are currently going through the same experience, we have had our fair share of stress, but we have met wonderful people along the way...

First of all, we have met another San Diego gay couple who just had two baby boys. They gave us valuable advice and connected us to Victor Hui Wee’s agency (WeeCare Partners USA, service agency for India Surrogacy). Victor has basically enabled our dream, connecting us with more wonderful people, such as Dr. Meenakshi Puranik who is supervising the whole process. We are very thankful to have met such an amazing and talented woman. We also have to thank our egg donation agency and our egg donor, who has been wonderful and charming. We would also like to mention our driver, Sachin, who has guided us through the chaos of Mumbai’s traffic.
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