'Rent-a-Womb' Surrogacy Faces Ban in India
India's government will ban foreigners from using surrogate mothers in the country, a move likely to hit the booming commercial surrogacy industry.
Ranks of childless foreign couples have flocked to the country in recent years looking for a low-cost, legal and simple route to parenthood.
Health industry estimates put the size of India’s surrogacy business at nine billion rupees ($138 million) and growing at 20 per cent a year.
But critics have said a lack of legislation governing surrogacy encourages “rent-a-womb” exploitation of young, poor Indian women.
In an affidavit to the Supreme Court today, the government said it “does not support commercial surrogacy”.
“No foreigners can avail surrogacy services in India,” it told the court, which is hearing a petition regarding the industry, adding that surrogacy would be available “only for Indian couples”.
Thousands of infertile couples, many from overseas, hire the wombs of Indian women to carry their embryos through to birth.
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This is a long overdue initiative by the Indian government.
People are not entitled to have children just because they have a couple of thousand dollars available and can hire a young woman relatively inexpensively to carry a child to term for them.
I'm actually surprised India let it go on for as long as they did.
Surprisingly enough Russia has a more enlightened policy then we do on this surrogacy business. All persons involved have no legal rights to the children born through these arrangements, no matter how much money exchanges hands. So there is no incentive to conduct these transactions financial or otherwise.
We see the potential for disaster inherent in these arrangements starting with the Baby M case and right up to the present day with Sherri Shepherd (former host of the View) trying to negative a surrogate contract because her husband filed for divorce before the child was even born to the surrogate...
Let's just say no as India is now doing.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Friday, October 23, 2015
Event Horizon Rapidly Accelerating on Custody Outcome...
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Kelly Rutherford Allowed to See Kids in Monaco as New Custody Hearing Is Set for October
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09/04/2015 AT 01:30 PM EDT
Despite fears that Kelly Rutherford would lose access to her two children after her ex accused her of
abducting them last month, the star is spending time with them after Thursday's
court appearance in Monaco. The Gossip Girl actress was spotted grabbing lunch with
son Hermes, 8, and daughter Helena, 6, in the South of France on Friday. A source says
that the current parenting arrangement – in which she and German businessman Daniel Giersch
have joint custody but the children live primarily with him and Monaco and France – remains in
tact, though there is a new court date set for Oct. 26.
"Everybody agrees that it's best that the children be with both parents,and Kelly's enjoying
being with them," the insider tells PEOPLE. Rutherford, 46, attended a two-hour hearing
Thursday in Monaco, another source says. She's been fighting to bring Hermes and Helena back
to the United States, where they were both born, since 2012, when a judge sent them abroad to live with
their father temporarily.
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I hope I am wrong, but I see a very sad outcome at hand for Kelly Rutherford. I believe she
might have her visitation either terminated or limited to a once a year visitation scenario under
supervision or something of that nature.
Generally in these sorts of situations where a mother won't quietly accept the court's decision
termination of contact is often the final outcome...
Maybe because she's famous and has made such a stink about the whole thing, they'll settle for
supervised once a year visitation until the children are teenagers or something of that nature.
Generally for the rest of us 'average' moms our visitation would have already been terminated.
It's why I support so-called 'Joint Custody' as it's the lesser of many evils offered to mothers when
they have children with men who are determined to fight it out in court for custody. Courts
today are not friendly to women, especially mothers.
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