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.
India plans tougher checks, renewal fees for IVF and surrogacy clinics
mint | December 4, 2025
India plans to intensify its oversight of IVF and surrogacy through stricter license renewal processes and increased inspection and monitoring efforts. Industry experts point to additional strategies needed to improve regulation of the industry and protect all parties involved.
India’s Supreme Court clarifies surrogacy age limit law
PET BioNews | October 13, 2025
The Indian Supreme Court ruled that age limits for intended parents seeking to have children through surrogacy should not apply to those who froze embryos before new regulations came into effect in 2022. The case involved 3 couples in their 50s and 60s.
Hyderabad surrogacy racket
The Times of India | July 28, 2025
Investigation of a fertility clinic in Hyderabad, India has revealed that the clinic’s supposed surrogacy operations actually involved the selling of poor family’s infants. Intended parents were told that the child was born via surrogacy and was biologically theirs, but DNA testing showed otherwise.
Amid review, debate over Australia’s surrogacy laws
Debate grows over Australia’s surrogacy laws as more couples look overseas
ABC News | June 27, 2025
Increasingly, Australians are going abroad for surrogacy arrangements, in part because Australia only allows non-compensated surrogacy. The Australian Law Reform Commission is conducting a review of the country’s surrogacy laws, but debate over the ethics of compensated surrogacy continues.
Should commercial surrogacy be allowed in Australia?
ABC News AM | June 26, 2025
Although compensated surrogacy is currently illegal in Australia, an ongoing review of the law could change that. Some advocates argue that allowing surrogates to be paid would make it easier for intended parents to find surrogates in Australia and would avoid the issue of lawyers and clinicians being paid, while the surrogate is not. Opponents of legalization argue it would lead to exploitation of vulnerable women, citing examples of recent cases in India and Thailand.
Supreme Court to examine age limit in India’s surrogacy laws
Hindustan Times | January 7, 2025
In response to petitions, India’s Supreme Court has agreed to examine several aspects of the country’s 2021 surrogacy law, including a stipulation that intended mothers must be between the ages of 23 and 50.
Reproductive Futures: The Promises and Pitfalls of In-Vitro Gametogenesis
The Wire | December 15, 2024
In vitro gametogenesis––an experimental technique that creates eggs and sperm from other kinds of human cells––could be used in tandem with surrogacy, but the technique brings several ethical concerns.
International Approaches to Surrogacy Regulation
The Regulatory Review | March 2, 2024
In the absence of an international legal framework, country-specific legislation on surrogacy spans a spectrum. This article summarizes a range of perspectives on the benefits and risks of surrogacy and features research analyzing various approaches to regulation.
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.
Indian judge denies single woman right to surrogacy saying institution of marriage under threat
The Independent | February 6, 2024
India’s Supreme Court denied a woman’s petition challenging the law that does not allow surrogacy for single women. The judges’ reasoning included a concern for protecting the institution of marriage, which many commenters critiqued because it falls outside the constitutional considerations of the Court.