Bar and Bench | December 8, 2025
After claims of illegal egg donation and surrogacy arrangements surfaced in the southern Indian state of Kerala, the state’s High Court recommended formation of a Special Investigation Team to investigate further.
There is an underground market for surrogacy eggs from Russian women in China
Global Voices | December 23, 2024
An investigation of ads on Russian social media that promoted free trips and thousands of dollars in compensation for Russian women to donate their eggs in China revealed the operation of an illegal, underground commercial egg donation enterprise between the countries.
How a cash-strapped Chinese woman sold her eggs to a surrogacy agency
Radio Free Asia | September 12, 2024
Reports of illegal egg retrieval and surrogacy operations in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao have prompted authorities to investigate. Underground surrogacy operations in the country leave egg donors and surrogates without needed protections and support, especially when complications arise.
Qingdao authorities to probe claims of illegal surrogacy operation
SHINE | August 29, 2024
A whistleblower reported that doctors from a hospital in the Chinese city of Qingdao were illegally conducting egg retrieval and embryo transfer procedures in collaboration with an underground surrogacy operation. The city’s health commission has launched an investigation.
Row erupts over how much women should be paid for donating their eggs
The Independent | August 11, 2024
After the UK announced increased compensation for egg donors due to inflation, campaigners who advocate on issues including surrogacy raised concerns that the increase would be exploitative, especially for low-income women, and highlighted risks of egg retrieval downplayed in the recruitment process.
What are new changes to India’s surrogacy law? Whom will it benefit?
Firstpost | February 23, 2024
Updates to India’s surrogacy law will allow married couples to use donor sperm or eggs provided that one member of the couple has a medical condition prompting the need for donor gametes. The law still stipulates that one of the gametes must come from the couple.
Address surrogacy separately from sperm & egg donation: Activists
Focus Taiwan | February 21, 2024
Women’s rights groups in Taiwan asked the government to first address the issue of single women and lesbian couples’ access to sperm and egg donation before considering surrogacy, to avoid delay due to the complexities of surrogacy regulation.
Karnataka High Court says surrogacy using donor gametes can’t be prohibited as a condition in consent form
November 21, 2023 | The Hindu
India’s High Court of Karnataka decided that surrogacy using donor gametes can’t be prohibited as a condition on the surrogacy consent form. The ruling will allow 12 petitioning couples to use donor gametes in their surrogacy arrangements.
Illegal surrogacy business busted in Shenzhen
The Standard | September 19, 2023
Shenzhen health authorities arrested six women, including a surrogate mother, an egg donor, a client waiting for an embryo transfer, laboratory staff and two nurses participating in an illegal surrogacy operation run by one man, who was also arrested.
Couple moves HC over bar on donor gametes for surrogacy
The Times of India | May 16, 2023
A couple in Mumbai is challenging a recent rule change that allows only the use of gametes from intending parents for surrogacy (no donor gametes), on the grounds that the rule violates constitutional rights.