Nagendar Sharma | Hindustan Times | New Delhi | 16 February 2010
The government will make a fresh bid for a new surrogacy law that would make the deal between prospective parents and the surrogate mother legally binding on both sides.
The Law Ministry’s move has a lot to do with the case of German twins Leonard and Nikolas, born to a surrogate in Gujarat. They have been in India, away from their parents, since their birth in 2007 because of India’s vague laws and Germany’s ban on commercial surrogacy. The Supreme Court on January 20 finally came up with a solution: the parents could adopt their own sons.
“There is no clarity in India on this issue. It’s a grey area,” said a ministry official. “Yes, we are working towards a new law on surrogacy,” Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said.