According to an article be IndiaSpend which says that it after nearly four decades since the birth of India’s first test-tube baby, assisted reproductive technology (ART) has now grown into an industry worth hundreds of crores. But instead of legislating to regulate the entire industry, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government has chosen to focus on only one part of it–surrogacy.
The article argues that the government has hardly any data to help it regulate the ART industry: How many babies in the country are born every year through these techniques? How many in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) clinics are there? How many cycles are they conducting on how many women? Which of these clinics offer surrogacies, what do they charge and how much are surrogates paid?
Read the full article here on IndiaSpend, Feature image courtesy blogspot
