Surrogacy
STAY SINGLE. STAY SAFE.
The largest contingent of voiceless, lonely women with limited agency in the subcontinent must be its married women. If they’re fortunate enough to be born and reach adulthood, a woman’s parents and society make sure she becomes an adult brainwashed into self-alienation and self-loathing.
By Nighat Gandhi
April 5, 2021
Opinion: India’s Proposed Commercial Surrogacy Ban Is an Assault on Women’s Rights
The new proposal to ban commercial surrogacy is essentially a rehash of a bill that was proposed three years ago — the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 — which lapsed when Parliament adjourned without taking the measure for a vote. The Indian minister for health has called the 2019 bill a “need of the hour,” citing a rough estimate that between 2,000 and 3,000 unregulated clinics currently operate in the country.
By Curated Content
Reproductive Technologies: Families of Choice?
While we moved one step forward towards sexual rights by striking down Article 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and decriminalising homosexuality, we still have a long way to go in changing and challenging the popular psyche and the political and legal narratives around homosexuality and queer families.
By Anindita Sengupta
March 5, 2019
The Editorial: Money and Sexuality
Aspects of sexuality such as aesthetic taste, body image, sexual orientation, desires and aspirations, self-esteem, gender expression, reproductive choices, and more, are all interdependent with the impact of money in our lives and that of those around us. Indeed, our systemic relationship with money has a direct influence on how we ‘value’ ourselves.
By TARSHI
May 15, 2017
The Government Must Rethink the Surrogacy Bill
The draft Bill appears to have been framed without addressing the actual concerns of the surrogacy arrangements in India, and could do more harm than good by leading to the exploitation of women.
By Curated Content
October 17, 2016
Surrogacy: A Gift for Whom?
The two people involved in the transaction of surrogacy occupy different positions of power. The surrogate who bears the child is not a woman with similar economic and social standing as the one who receives the child.
By Ashima Mittal
July 1, 2016
The Fear of the ‘Other’: The Emerging Gay Family in Transnational Surrogacy
The Nepal Earthquake and its devastating impact on the citizens of the country was also felt amongst a small group…
By Anindita Majumdar
The Invisible Mother: The ‘Stigma’ of Surrogacy
Mobility is undertaken for varied reasons across contemporary global spaces. One emerging reason for travel and mobility is reproduction. ‘Reproductive…
By Sama
November 1, 2014