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People pursue surrogacy for a variety of reasons such as infertility, dangers or undesirable factors of pregnancy, or when pregnancy is a medical impossibility. A surrogacy relationship or legal agreement contains the person who carries the pregnancy and gives birth and the person or persons who take custody of the child after birth.
India was a main destination for surrogacy because of the relatively low cost until international surrogacy was outlawed in 2015. [57] Although there are no official figures available, a 2012 United Nations report counted around 3,000 fertility clinics in India. [58] India's surrogacy business was estimated at around $1 billion annually. [58]
In Australia, all jurisdictions allow altruistic surrogacy; with commercial surrogacy being a criminal offense.In New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory it is an offence to enter into international commercial surrogacy [3] arrangements with potential penalties extending to imprisonment for up to one year in Australian Capital Territory, up to two years imprisonment in ...
In India, "surrogacy...is slated to add $2 billion to the nation's gross domestic product". [4] So the country gets money, the surrogates get the needed money, and a couple gets a baby. For comparison, in the US, the cost is $150,000, in a handful of states where it is permitted. For surrogates, the compensation outweighs the downside.
A surrogate marriage describes the arrangement where a woman is infertile or dies young and her family substitutes another woman to bear children for the husband. Surrogate marriage, also referred to as woman-to-man marriage, is a distinctive practice prevalent among certain African communities, notably the Igbo people of Nigeria.
In re Baby M was a custody case that became the first American court ruling on the validity of surrogacy.William Stern entered into a surrogacy agreement with Mary Beth Whitehead, arranged by the Infertility Center of New York ("ICNY"), opened in 1981 by a Michigan attorney, Noel Keane. [1]
Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India is a 2016 book by anthropologist Daisy Deomampo. The book analyzes transnational commercial surrogacy, focusing on the practices of doctors, surrogates, parents, and agents in India.
The Guidelines on Surrogacy Arrangements involving Assisted Reproductive Procedures state that the approval of an ethics committee must be obtained before surrogacy agreements are allowed to proceed. [6] The Ethics Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology must determine, among other mandatory considerations and requirements, that: