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24/02/24 07:53 AM IST

New rules on surrogacy

In News
  • The Centre amended the surrogacy Rules to allow couples to use donor eggs or donor sperm for surrogacy.
  • This overturned a previous amendment made in March 2023 that banned the use of donor gametes.
New Rule
  • The District Medical Board certifies that either husband or wife constituting the intending couple suffers from medical condition necessitating use of donor gamete, then surrogacy using donor gamete is allowed.”
  • While the relaxation is for “intending couple”, the notification said that if a divorced or widowed woman opts for surrogacy, the egg has to come from the mother: “Single woman (widow or divorcee) undergoing surrogacy must use self-eggs and donor sperms to avail surrogacy procedure.”
Implications
  • Prior to the March 2023 notification — which insisted on the use of both eggs and sperm from the intending couple — surrogacy rules allowed the use of donor eggs, but not sperm.
  • The new amendment will keep surrogacy open to older women as well as those who cannot produce eggs because of certain medical conditions.
  • The women who opt for surrogacy are likely to be older, having tried other methods of getting pregnant before considering surrogacy. This is the reason some of them would need a donor egg. 
  • Surrogacy with donor egg will be required only for women who do not have a uterus — or have conditions that affect the functioning of the uterus — along with certain conditions affecting their ability to produce eggs.
Who are intended for surrogacy?
  • Surrogacy is mainly intended for women who have a missing or abnormal uterus, or have had the uterus surgically removed due to a medical condition.
  • It can also be availed by women who have failed to conceive after multiple rounds of IVF, or women living with conditions that make it impossible for them to carry the pregnancy to term, or which make a pregnancy life-threatening.
  • If the endometrium is thinner than 8 mm, the woman will not be able to carry the pregnancy to term.
  • It can be because of polyps that the body thinks of as foreign object or because of adhesions in the uterus.
Source- Indian Express

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