{"id":67857,"date":"2025-10-10T14:58:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=67857"},"modified":"2025-10-10T16:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:47:58","slug":"surrogacy-regulation-act-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/surrogacy-regulation-act-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court recently ruled that the age limits under the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021, do not apply to couples who had frozen their embryos and initiated the surrogacy process before the law came into force on January 25, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>In India, surrogacy is regulated by the Surrogacy Regulation Act, 2021.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This act <\/span><b>prohibits commercial surrogacy.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The object of this Act is to prevent the exploitation of the women who may be lured into the arrangements of the commercial surrogacy.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the provisions of the Act <\/span><b>altruistic surrogacy is permitted <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">whereby the surrogate mother is required to carry the child to help another individual or couple<\/span><b> without receiving the monetary benefit other than medical and insurance expenses.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It provides for the <\/span><b>prohibition and regulation of surrogacy clinics.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It states that <\/span><b>\u201cNo Surrogacy Clinic shall conduct <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or associate with or assist in the performance of the <\/span><b>activities relating to the surrogacy and surrogacy procedures unless such clinic has been registered<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under this Act\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>prohibits any person or entity, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">including the surrogacy clinic, paediatrician, gynaecologist, embryologist, or even the registered medical practitioner <\/span><b>to engage in any form of the commercial surrogacy practices.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It further <\/span><b>prohibits the abortion during the period of the surrogacy without the written consent of the surrogate mother and the registered medical practitioner, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">including the gynaecologist, paediatrician, and embryologist.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Surrogacy procedures shall not be performed<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or initiated <\/span><b>unless the certificate of essentiality is obtained by the intended couple.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It provides that a <\/span><b>surrogate must be a woman<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who has been <\/span><b>married and has at least one child of her own.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>She must be between the age of 25 -35 years<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the date of implantation.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The s<\/span><b>urrogate mother should refrain from providing her own gametes<\/b> <b>and from acting as a surrogate mother more than once.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It states that the<\/span><b> intended couple must be married.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>women <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">must be between the age of <\/span><b>23-50 years, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the <\/span><b>man <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">must be between the age of <\/span><b>26-55 years on the date of the certification.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Intended partners must have been <\/span><b>married for the period of 5 years and must be nationals of India.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further it states that the<\/span><b> intended couple should not have any surviving children, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">whether biologically or through adoption or from any earlier surrogacy procedures.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA<\/span><b> child born out of the surrogacy procedure shall be deemed to be the biological child <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of the intended couple and shall be <\/span><b>entitled to all the rights and privileges which are available to the natural child.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/supreme-court-says-retrospective-age-limits-under-surrogacy-law-violate-reproductive-autonomy\/article70142507.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 aims to prevent the exploitation of the women who may be lured into the arrangements of the commercial surrogacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":67952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3177,3176],"class_list":{"0":"post-67857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-3177","9":"tag-surrogacy-regulation-act","10":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}