Embarking on the journey of parenthood through surrogacy requires a compassionate and legally compliant partner. Kiran Fertility Centre in India stands as a beacon of support, offering altruistic surrogacy services with a commitment to ethical practices and legal adherence.

Understanding Altruistic Surrogacy:

Altruistic surrogacy is a selfless act where a woman, known as the surrogate, willingly carries a pregnancy for another couple or individual without financial gain beyond the reimbursement of medical and associated expenses. It fosters a unique bond built on empathy, shared understanding, and emotional connection between the surrogate and the intended parents.

Surrogacy (Regulation) Rules, 2022

(i) Couple undergoing surrogacy must have both gamete from the intending couple. However, in case when the District Medical Board certifies that either husband or wife constituting the intending couple suffers from medical condition necessitating use of donor gamete then surrogacy using donor gamete is allowed subject to the condition that the child to be born through surrogacy must have atleast one gamete from the intending couple;

(ii) Single woman (widow or divorcee) undergoing surrogacy must use self eggs and donor sperms to avail surrogacy procedure.

Surrogacy Act 2021

1. ” Altruistic surrogacy ” means the Altruistic surrogacy in which no charges , expenses , fees , remuneration or monetary incentive of whatever nature , except the medical expenses and such other prescribed expenses incurred on surrogate mother and the insurance coverage for the surrogate mother , are given to the surrogate mother or her dependents or her representative

2. “Commercial Altruistic surrogacy” means commercialization of  Altruistic surrogacy services or procedures or its component services or component procedures including selling or buying of human embryo or trading in the sale or purchase of human embryo or gametes or selling or buying or trading the services of surrogate motherhood by way of giving payment , reward , benefit , fees , remuneration or monetary incentive in cash or kind , to the surrogate mother or her dependents or her representative , except the medical expenses and such other prescribed expenses incurred on the surrogate mother and the insurance coverage for the surrogate mother

3. ” Couple ” means the legally married Indian man and woman above the age of 21 years and 18 years respectively

4. ” Insurance ” means an arrangement by which a company , individual or intending couple undertake to provide a guarantee of compensation for medical expenses , health issues , specified loss , damage , illness or death of surrogate mother and such other prescribed expenses incurred on such surrogate mother during the process of Altruistic surrogacy

5. ” Intending couple ” means a couple who have a medical indication necessitating  gestational Altruistic surrogacy and who intend to become parents through Altruistic surrogacy.

6. ” Intending woman ” means an Indian woman who is a widow or divorcee between the age of 35 to 45 years and who intends to avail the Altruistic surrogacy.

7. ” Altruistic Surrogacy ” means a practice whereby one woman bears and gives birth to a child for an intending couple with the intention of handing over such child to the intending couple after the birth.

8. “Altruistic Surrogacy clinic ” means Altruistic surrogacy clinic , centre or laboratory , conducting assisted reproductive technology services , invitro fertilization services , genetic counselling centre, genetic laboratory, Assisted Reproductive Technology Banks conducting Altruistic surrogacy procedure or any clinical establishment, by whatsoever name called, conducting  Altruistic surrogacy procedures in any form.

9. “Altruistic Surrogacy procedures” means all gynaecological, obstetrical or medical procedures, techniques, tests, practices or services involving handling of human gametes and human embryo in Altruistic surrogacy.

10. ” Altruistic Surrogate mother ” means a willing woman who agrees to bear a child ( who is genetically related to the intending couple or intending woman ) through Altruistic surrogacy from the implantation of embryo in her womb and fulfils the conditions as prescribed under the Act.

11. Insurance -an insurance coverage of such amount and in such manner as may be prescribed in favour of the surrogate mother for a period of thirty six months covering postpartum delivery complications from an insurance company or an agent recognized by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority established under the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Act, 1999.

12. No woman , other than an ever married woman having a child of her own and between the age of 25 to 35 years on the day of implantation, shall be a surrogate mother or help in  Altruistic surrogacy by donating her egg or oocyte or otherwise.

13. A willing woman shall act as a surrogate mother and be permitted to undergo  Altruistic surrogacy procedures as per the provisions of this Act.

14. The intending couple or intending woman shall not abandon the child , born out of a Altruistic surrogacy procedure , whether within India or outside , for any reason whatsoever , including but not restricted to , any genetic defect , birth defect , any other medical condition , the defects developing subsequently, sex of the child or conception of more than one baby and the like.

15. A child born out of  Altruistic surrogacy procedure, shall be deemed to be a biological child of the intending couple or intending woman and the said child shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges available to a natural child under any law for time being in force. All  Altruistic Surrogacy and IVF procedures at Kiran Infertility centre and its branches in India shall be conducted as per the Provisions of the  Altruistic Surrogacy Regulation act 2021.