Government issues new guidelines on surrogacy, experts call them backward, unfair
Mumbai (ibllive.in.com / Nikita) : In a big development, the Union Home Ministry has come up with new guidelines which bars foreign gay and lesbian couples from seeking surrogacy services in India. Furthermore, only those couples who have been married for at least two years can apply for babies via surrogacy.IVF Specialist Dr Anirudh Malpani said, "This is a really a backward step for multiple reasons. If there is an alternative lifestyle, which is a gay lifestyle, why should we say that they are not going to be good parents as compared to, let's say, the traditional heterosexual couples? So I think that's very unfair. Equally important, I think this is discriminatory, in the sense that if you are an Indian gay couple or an Indian single man who wants to have an surrogacy child you allow him to do that."
