Law Centre 1, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Public Health. 2013 Apr-Jun;57(2):65-70. doi: 10.4103/0019-557X.114984.
The human body is a wonderful machine. The future of child birth in the form of test tube babies, surrogate motherhood through new reproductive and cloning technology will introduce undreamt of possibilities in the sexual arena. Surrogacy is a method of assisted reproduction whereby a woman agrees to become pregnant for the purpose of gestating and giving birth to a child for others to raise. In some jurisdictions the possibility of surrogacy has been allowed and the intended parents may be recognized as the legal parents from birth. Commercial surrogacy, or "Womb for rent", is a growing business in India. In our rapidly globalizing world, the growth of reproductive tourism is a fairly recent phenomenon. Surrogacy business is exploiting poor women in country like India already having with an alarmingly high maternal death rate. This paper talks about paternity issues and women's right to health in context of surrogacy. Government must seriously consider enacting a law to regulate surrogacy in India in order to protect and guide couples going in for such an option. Without a foolproof legal framework, patients will invariably be misled and the surrogates exploited.
人体是一个奇妙的机器。未来的生育形式——试管婴儿、通过新的生殖和克隆技术代孕——将在性领域带来前所未有的可能性。代孕是一种辅助生殖方法，即一名妇女同意怀孕，目的是妊娠和分娩，由他人抚养。在一些司法管辖区，代孕的可能性已经得到允许，并且预期的父母可能从出生起就被视为合法父母。商业代孕，或“出租子宫”，在印度是一个不断发展的行业。在我们这个快速全球化的世界中，生殖旅游的增长是一个相当新的现象。代孕业务正在剥削印度等国家的贫困妇女，而这些国家已经面临着惊人的高孕产妇死亡率。本文讨论了代孕背景下的亲子关系问题和妇女的健康权。政府必须认真考虑在印度制定一项法律来规范代孕，以保护和指导寻求这种选择的夫妇。如果没有万无一失的法律框架，患者将不可避免地受到误导，代孕者将受到剥削。
