From Surrogacy to Reality TV!!Uk's first gay surrogate parents Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow set for TV series!!

A GAY couple from Danbury will be propelled into the nation’s living rooms this Monday when a TV series about their surrogacy company begins.
Barrie, 43, and Tony Drewitt-Barlow, 49, hit the headlines in 2000 when they became Britain’s first gay surrogate parents. They now have five children and are considered ‘the most famous gay dads in the country’.
Since their first child, the couple have set up their own surrogacy company – the British Surrogate Centre – to help other couples throughout Europe have a child.
The show will follow the trials and tribulations of the company, highlighting the good times and the tearful times. It was the brainchild of fellow Essex lad David Van Day, former member of band Guys’n’Dolls.
Of the show, Barrie said: “You can’t help, but get emotional with some of the stories you hear coming into our office. But it’s also important for people to see the horror stories, like seeing innocent people getting ripped off by agencies.
“We’ve done one hour shows in the past, but this time filming is for a whole series and took about ten months. For the first time people will be
The couple are parents to one girl, Saffron, and four boys, Dallas, Orlando, Aspen, and Jasper, and became one of the first gay couples to get married when it was leglaised in March.
However Barrie found the day a bit of an anti-climax, preferring the couples civil partnership at Hylands House ceremony in 2006.
He said: “Tony was sick with cancer at the time, so it meant more. We didn’t know if he would be around.”
*The show starts on Monday, May 26, on Showcase, Sky channel 192.
able to see the real us, the kids screaming and everything!”

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Just 2 more days and India will bounce back!!

Like a Phoenix!!India will rise once again,the last decade or so has been horrible under the rule of the congress government and  the election results this coming friday will give power to the BJP led NDA,a party that i support and led by Narendra Modi,India will be back on track again.

on may 16th results are due for the world's largest ever polling exercise in Democratic history,never have so many people voted together from one country!!they have voted to bring to power one of the most controversial and polarising figures of modern India-Narendra Modi.Indians have put their faith in a man who carries the hopes of more than a billion people to bring about economic revival but controversially also very unfairly carries the stigma of the 2002 riots in gujurat.

i am an unabashed Modi Supporter to the extent that one of my very good muslim friends from school has stopped being in touch with me!!the other day one of our patients from USA was asking me how India a nation of such great diversity where people from different religions,nationalities,castes ,langauages and culture have lived together for centuries in harmony is going to elect a divisive figure like Modi??my answer is simple- India has had a history of riots since the time the british colonised us and this policy of dividing the country on religious lines suited the monarchy perfectly because no one for nearly 200 years protested their rule because they were busy fighting each other on religious or regional grunds,this policy was continued by the Gandhi family and the congress party which always came to power by fear mongering and creating insecurity amongst the minorities especially the muslim community.earlier it was Nehru then his daughter Indira then her son Rajeev followed by his wife Sonia Gandhi.this fear mongering and offering benefits to the minority communities became the hallmark of the congress party which helped them to hold on to power for nearly 60 years by dividing the country on religious and ethnic lines,the minorities kept on voting for them because they were so scared by the propoganda of the congress that if some other party like the BJP came to power they would not take good care of them or would push them into submission,in fact they became so scared that they never realised that the congress kept them poor and economically backward for 60 years for their votes, the good news is that the youth have woken up and realised this tactic of the congress party,they want growth,they want development,they want to put the past behind,they realise that economic freedom and development is the best security for any individual or family or religious group,they dont want freebies,they want jobs,they want to work and earn a good living,they want good roads,good infrastruture, no power outages!!  

 Modi can provide all of this and more!!he has been in power in gujurat for more than 12 years and not even a single Communal riot or disturbance has taken place under his watch whereas every year some or the other major religious riot happens in some part of the country or the other,the industrial and agricultural output in gujurat has been consistenly 3 to 4 folds higher compared to the average growth rates for the rest of the country and there is unlimited power supply in almost all parts of gujurat because he has harnessed solar power .

In 2004 India was riding a economic wave,a superpower in the making,talked about in the same breath as china india had become a nation that after centuries of oppression and foreign rule gained the confidence to start believing in itself,in 2004 Manmohan singh became PM,he had immaculate credentials as an economist and is perhaps the cleanest politician in the country after Modi.10 years later in 2014 whilst china has gone from strength to strength,India on the other hand has become an "Aaya Ram,gaya Ram"(has been)

PM singh sat quietly and watched from the sidelines as Sonia gandhi and her son Rahul gandhi Single handedly destroyed and betrayed the hopes of a billion people!!growth stuttered under policy paralysis and corruption,the Cabinet filled their pockets whilst the country suffered from lack of investment and ridiculous retrospective rulings and laws which includes the ridiculous retrospective tax ruling in the vodafone case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodafone_India and the even more bizarre visa regulations for foriegn nationals undergoing surrogacy in India http://boi.gov.in/content/surrogacy

There are millions of unemployed youth in the country and they want jobs and not  freebies worth 2 dollars a day!!in Modi millions of Indians hope to finally and forever shed the tag of underachievers and even though the appointment of Modi as PM of India is not agreeable at all to several fake and pseudo seculars but for millions of others Modi represents "hope" of a brighter future!!

just 2 more days(:

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Surrogacy in India

Sheeba and Jacob from Dubai and Marcelo from Brasil were blessed with children last week with the helps of our surrogacy program.
i met one of the parents today and they were very very happy.they have been trying since several years to have a baby.
it feels good to work in a profession where all parties involved are benefitted and you can make abig difference to the lives of others on a daily basis but sadly the Indian Government does not seem to have a mind of its own when it comes to most matters and the same is with International surrogacy and seems to be dictated by what the foreign press and lobby have to say.
apparently the prime minister of India was also told by his belgian counterpart that members from EU countries should not be allowed surrogacy in INDIA.
the good news is that Elections are all in full swing and i hope that this Puppet government is thrown out of power and Narendra Modi who has a strong will ,a mind of his own and a vision for development and growth and is known to have a favour

able stand on surrogacy become Prime Minister!!the whole of India needs him and even though i have cases lined up on voting day i will get up earlier than usual at 5 am and go and vote first and then go and work!!

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Sudan national moves HC against surrogacy norms

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/sudan-national-moves-hc-against-surrogacy-norms/

A Sudan national Monday moved Punjab and Haryana High Court challenging the guidelines of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) restricting single foreign nationals and unmarried couples from coming to India for purposes of surrogacy on medical visas. The MHA had last year revised the norms allowing only married men and women with a marriage of at least two years to come to India on medical visas for the purpose of surrogacy.

Taking up the petition of Shihabeldin,who desires to be single parent,a division bench headed by Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul issued notice to the MHA asking it submit its response to the petitioner’s contentions by September. Advocate Anil Malhotra had moved the petition on behalf of Shihabeldin.

The petitioner,a permanent resident of Republic of Sudan,said in his petition that he wishes to be a single parent through a surrogacy arrangement and hence vide a mail dated June 29 contacted the Indian government and enquired about single foreign parent surrogacy facility in Chandigarh.

However,he was denied the same and was told that surrogacy facility in India could not be availed by a single foreign parent.

He was told that the MHA,vide revised guidelines dated July 9,2012,had restricted surrogacy to married men and women with a marriage of at least two years,there by excluding single foreign nationals and unmarried couples from coming to India for purposes of surrogacy on medical visas.

Dubbing this as violation of Article 21 of Constitution of India (right to life and personal liberty),Advocate Malhotra submitted that surrogacy cannot be denied to single foreign nationals.

Malhotra contended that “this unreasonable and unjust classification treats equals unequally thereby violating equality of law and equal protection of laws”. He said,“Foreign nationals,overseas citizens of India,and person of Indian Origin cannot be discriminated in the matter of surrogacy upon comparison with Indian nationals”.

He contended that imposing a ban on surrogacy by foreign single persons or foreign unmarried couples amounts to “an unreasonable,unjust and arbitrary classification,which has no nexus with the object sought to be achieved”.

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