Govt soon to regulate law to protect child, mother rights
Govt soon to regulate law to protect child, mother rights
Government is going to regulate the business of surrogacy in the country and planning to make any violation of the rights of the child and the mother a cognisable offence.
A draft legislation to protect social, medical and ethical rights of infertile couples and of children born out of the arrangement has been finalised.
The Assisted Reproductive Technology Regulation (ART) Bill, sent to the Law Ministry for approval, makes violation of stakeholder rights a cognisable offence and provides for upto five year imprisonment and a hefty fine as deterrent punishment.
Sources in the Health Ministry said the revised bill was intended to be tabled in the Winter Session of Parliament as the final draft law along with a cabinet note had been submitted to the Law Ministry for vetting.
In the past, several children born to foreigners through Indian surrogate mothers have been at the receiving end after Indian courts refused to recognise them as Indian citizens.
