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Before commercial surrogacy was banned in 2015, India was a popular destination for surrogacy. The economic scale of surrogacy in India is unknown, but study backed by the United Nations in July 2012 estimated the business at more than $400 million a year, with over 3,000 fertility clinics across India. [8]
Before 2015, foreign commercial surrogacy was legal in India. [46] India was a destination for surrogacy-related fertility tourism because of the relatively low cost. Including the costs of flight tickets, medical procedures, and hotels, it was roughly a third of the price compared with going through the procedure in the UK. [ 47 ]
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.
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The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is a women's health centre located in Anand, Gujarat, India, [1] and headed by Dr Nayna Patel. [2] [3] The clinic was founded in 1999, and was originally focused on In Vitro Fertilization. India declared commercial surrogacy legal in 2002; however the clinic did not begin to do surrogacy until 2004. [4]
Prominent feminists such as Gloria Steinem vocally oppose commercial surrogacy on grounds that it is coercive for low-income women and poses serious risks, and feminist icon Margaret Atwood's ...
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]
A commercial surrogate named Audrey told the researchers: “I am able to see the family have their biggest dream come true. ... we want surrogacy to benefit the widest pool of people—including ...