Kalyani Badola, Amrita Gupta, Ruchi Bhargava | The Wire |16 December 2016 The Mental Healthcare Bill, 2013 has received a lot of attention since it was passed by the Rajya Sabha in August this year. In the Bill, provisions like decriminalisation… Continue reading
Sama Resource Group for Women and Health | Arrow | 2016 This paper examines the phenomenon of surrogacy as an industry in India and provides an overview of its operations. An understanding of this industry will be strengthened through an… Continue reading
Sarojini N.| The Hindustan Times| 7 September 2016 The Surrogacy Bill 2016 allows only ‘altruistic’ surrogacy by a close relative for heterosexual Indian couples who have been married for five years and are childless. By putting a bar on homosexual… Continue reading
Sarojini Nadimpally, Deepa Venktachalam and Sneha Banerjee| Kafila| 28 August 2016 The press briefing on commercial surrogacy by Minister of External Affairs Ms Sushma Swaraj, on 24th August 2016, did not come as a surprise to many of us who have been advocating… Continue reading
Sarojini Nadimpally and Sneha Banerjee| The Wire|16 August 2016 On July 25 2016, the Supreme Court of India, granted Ms X the “liberty … if she is so advised, to terminate her pregnancy” at 24 weeks. The judgment was based on… Continue reading
This article is included as one of the chapters of the edited volume titled Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Global South and North: Issues, Challenges and the Future, edited by Virginie Rozée, Sayeed Unisa. The volume published by Routledge, “critically analyses the political and social frameworks of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), and its impact in different countries. Continue reading
