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Legal and Low Cost Surrogacy Process in India

The most experienced IVF and infertility treatment provider, Raipur IVF Centre offers a legal and hassle free surrogacy process in India that will prove to be cost-effective. Our clinic is proud to be recognized as the best surrogacy hospital in India.

What are the eligibility criteria for couples?

Under the new law, the commissioning parents, i.e., the couple who wish to have a child through surrogacy, have first to approach a government medical board, consisting of obstetricians, paediatricians, and other specialists.
The woman and man in such a case have to be between 25 and 50 years of age. They should not have had a child, either naturally conceived, adopted, or born out of surrogacy. They should also have with them a clear medical and radiological report, and sometimes if asked specifically, a report that also clears them of genetic anomalies.
Furthermore, the couple should have an insurance policy for the surrogate mother to cover her medical needs for 36 months from the date of embryo transfer. Once the board validates the couple’s submission, an essentiality certificate is issued to them.
The certificate then has to be submitted to the court of a first-class judicial magistrate for a suitable order. The order would serve as the proof of birth for the child born of surrogacy, and so also enable the commissioning couple to register their child in the municipality concerned.

Who is eligible to be a surrogate?
As required by the law, the surrogate has to be eligible too. She has to be between 25 and 35 years of age; be married with a child of her own. She should also be a first-time surrogate. Furthermore, a psychiatrist has to certify her as being mentally fit.
Once the couple and the surrogate have obtained their eligibility certificates, they can approach an Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) centre for the embryo transfer.
The law also says the surrogate and the couple would have to have their Aadhaar cards linked. It would help make the biometrics of the persons in the arrangement traceable, thereby reducing the scope of malpractice significantly.

How does the law address commercialisation of surrogacy?
The sense of the law is that the practice of surrogacy has to be altruistic in nature. Hence, it has banned commercialisation of the surrogacy.

No one can sell or buy human embryos and gametes.
No one can sell or buy the services of a surrogate.
Furthermore, no payment, reward, benefit, fees, renumeration, or inducement can be offered to the surrogate, her dependents, or her representative.

Also, the law has banned the export of embryos to foreign countries. Even transferring embryos between labs or between ART centres requires the permission of the appropriate authorities. Those caught violating the ban will be fined and jailed for up to 10 years.

Some of the other nuances of the law are:

The Indian marriage act recognises only marriage between heterosexual individuals. Hence, gay couples cannot employ surrogacy to have a child.
The surrogate, once she has entered into the contract, cannot refuse to carry the pregnancy to term. She cannot terminate her pregnancy without permission from the appropriate authority.
The law says the embryo should be genetically related to the couple, either to the man or to the woman or both. Embryo donation is not allowed in surrogacy.
The law grants a divorcee or a widow to offer her eggs for surrogacy, on the condition that she is between 35 and 45 years of age.
If a couple from India utilises the services of a surrogate outside the country, the child born of such an act will not be recognised as an Indian citizen.
If the commissioning couple dies before the child is born, the onus of raising the child falls on the nominees of the couple appointed at the time of signing the surrogacy contract. The nominees would have to bear the responsibility of the newborn child. However, at a later point, if they so wish, the nominees can give up the child for adoption or to an orphanage.
The children so born can claim the right to know they were born of surrogacy when they turn 18. They can also exercise their right to trace the identity of the surrogate mother.

About Enjoying a Hassle Free and Reliable Surrogacy:

1. After receiving your email or call, we will ask you about the history of treatment.

2. It is important to have a valid reason to opt for egg donation or surrogacy.

3. You need to pay a token fee and register with us for taking forward the legal processing and documentation for a hassle free surrogacy treatment.

4. We will stay in touch with your dates.

5. After the pregnancy of the surrogate mother, we will keep you informed about the continuous development and progress of the child.

6. Our associate doctors will take good care of the child and mother’s health by tracking the development during the entire process.

7. We will take good care of the surrogate mother by providing the highest standard of reliable service like food, medical and delivery process. The surrogate mother will be always under the supervision of an associate doctor.