Akanksha Infertility Clinic

The Akanksha Infertility Clinic is a women's health centre located in Anand, Gujarat, India,[1] and headed by Dr Nayana Patel.[2] Patel, who appeared on Oprah Winfrey's talk show in 2007, has produced more than 500 surrogate babies.

Surrogacy

Couples are charged an average of $25,000 to $30,000. Dr. Patel pays her surrogates around 400,000 rupees ($6,500). For comparison, in USA, the cost is $150,000, in a handful of states where it is permitted.[3] For surrogates, the compensation outweighs the downside. A recent surrogate was the wife of an auto-rickshaw driver with three daughters of her own. she had to live in a hostel for nine months with 60 other surrogates so the clinic could monitor her health.

Akanksha claims an implantation success rate of 44%, similar to other Indian clinics, compared with a US norm of 31%.[4]

Baby Manji controversy

A Japanese baby girl born to an Indian surrogate mother was in legal limbo after the couple who had intended to raise her divorced.[5] The three-month-old baby had been unable to leave India after her birth because she holds neither an Indian nor a Japanese nationality. The issue was resolved after the Japanese Government issued a one-year visa to her on humanitarian grounds, after the Indian Government had granted the baby a travel certificate in September in line with a Supreme Court direction.[6]

Legislation

A law - the Assisted Reproductive Technologies Bill (ART) - has been introduced to protect surrogates, the children and the commissioning parents.[7]

Dr Anup Gupta, the founder of Delhi IVF, a clinic that handles five to six cases a month said that "The legislation will facilitate surrogacy".[8]

External links

Draft, Assisted Reproductive Technologies Bill, http://icmr.nic.in/guide/ART%20REGULATION%20Draft%20Bill1.pdf, MINISTRY OF HEALTH & FAMILY WELFARE GOVT. OF INDIA, NEW DELHI

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kari Points, [COMMERCIAL SURROGACY AND FERTILITY TOURISM IN INDIA The Case of Baby Manji https://web.duke.edu/kenanethics/CaseStudies/BabyManji.pdf], Case Studies in Ethics, The Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
  2. ↑ Nita Bhalla and Mansi Thapliyal Mon Sep 30, 2013, [India seeks to regulate its booming 'rent-a-womb' industry http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/30/us-india-surrogates-idUSBRE98T07F20130930], Reuters
  3. ↑ Stephanie M. Lee, [Delicate bond ties pair of families in 2 countries, http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Delicate-bond-ties-pair-of-families-in-2-countries-4844908.php#page-3], SFGate, September 29, 2013
  4. ↑ Scott Carney, Inside India’s Rent-a-Womb Business http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2010/02/surrogacy-tourism-india-nayna-patel?page=2, Mother Jones, March/April 2010 Issue
  5. ↑ Hannah Gardner, [Surrogate baby in legal limbo http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/south-asia/surrogate-baby-in-legal-limbo#ixzz2gP5nCM00], The National, August 6, 2008
  6. ↑ Press Trust of India, [Baby Manji reaches Osaka http://www.indianexpress.com/news/baby-manji-reaches-osaka/380945/], November 3, Tue Nov 04 2008
  7. ↑ Nita Bhalla and Mansi Thapliyal, [India seeks to regulate its booming 'rent-a-womb' industry, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/30/us-india-surrogates-idUSBRE98T07F20130930], Sep 30, 2013
  8. ↑ Nirmala Ganapathy, The Straits Times, [A Rented Womb http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=5005], August 22, 2010