A woman in South Africa has challenged the Surrogacy laws in her country and has asked the
Pretoria High Court yesterday to nullify the requirement that there be a
genetic link between the baby and at least one of the people
commissioning the surrogate pregnancy.
The requirement is a
provision of the Children’s Act of 2005 allows surrogate births only
where if at least one contributes their gametes.
If the Cape Town woman’s application to the court succeeds, it will end her 13-year battle to have a child.
Since 2001, the 56-year-old...
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Wednesday, 15 October 2014
Posted by Dr Samit Sekhar on 05:11
Surrogacy in India.
Apple and Facebook are offering to freeze eggs for female employees in an effort to attract more women on to their staff.
Apple, said it would offer the perk to US-based staff from January.
“Apple cares deeply about our employees and their families, and we are always looking at new ways our health programmes can meet their needs,” said the company.
“We continue to expand our benefits for women, with a new extended maternity leave policy, along with cyropreservation and egg storage as part of our extensive support for infertility...
Saturday, 11 October 2014
Posted by Dr Samit Sekhar on 00:31
PARIS–The French "Protest for All" movement
has gathered 100,000 participants in Paris and Bordeaux on 6 October
2014.
Last week, Prime Minister Manuel Valls wanted to reassure, and affirmed
to be opposed to gestational surrogacy, a practice of what he calls as “commercializing
human beings and merchandising the female bodies”, something
intolerable, according to his own words. France also plans a global
initiative to get a ruling among the states to this affect.God Only Knows what stone age he is still living in!!
Last weekend,...
Thursday, 9 October 2014
Posted by Dr Samit Sekhar on 23:55
Surrogacy in India
A parental order under section 54 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 is compulsory for British Commissioning parents who have had a baby through Surrogacy abroad
The issue came up in a UK court last week.
It was brought by a couple who wanted a surrogate child, presumably
because they were unable to have one of their own. We know little about
them except that they began legal proceedings in Birmingham.
In 2011, the Birmingham couple made a surrogacy agreement with a
married couple in India. The...
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