Context
India has come out with a set of laws that seeks to monitor and regulate surrogacy and assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs).
About
About Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART):
India’s Fertility Market:
Laws related to Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) and Surrogacy:
Difference between the two laws:
Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill |
Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) |
The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill relates to surrogacy, an infertility treatment, where a third person, a woman, is the surrogate mother. |
In ART, treatments can be availed by the commissioning couple themselves and it is not always necessary that a third person is involved. |
Surrogacy is allowed for only Indian married couples. |
ART procedures are open to married couples, live-in partners, single women, and also foreigners. |
Under the Surrogacy Bill, there will be a National Surrogacy Board that will be involved in policymaking, and act as a supervisory body, and State Boards that will act as executive bodies. |
The ART Bill provides for a National Board, with the powers vested in a civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure. |
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