Surrogacy Regulations In India

Surrogacy is a form of third-party reproductive practice or an arrangement in which the intending parents and the surrogate mother jointly agree that the latter shall conceive, gestate and give birth to a child. After the child is born, it is decided that the surrogate mother would legally and physically hand over the child to the intending parents without preserving any parentage or parental obligations¹. Etymologically, the word Surrogacy originates from the Latin term "Surrogatus", which roughly defines a substitute, i.e., a person appointed to act in the place of another. Along the same lines, the Black's Law Dictionary defines surrogacy to mean the "process of carrying and delivering a child for another person".²