India


Convicted paedophile gets child from surrogate mother in India

Michael Cook | 15 June 2013 |
tags: India, Israel, surrogacy
A convicted Israeli paedophile adopted a 4-year-old girl from a surrogate mother in India, the Jewish Chronicle has reported.

Indian women victimized in sterilization camps

Michael Cook | 15 June 2013 |
tags: India, informed consent, sterilization
Sterilization of poor Indian women is still a major tool used by state governments to slow population growth.

Are US media finally discovering the exploitation in India surrogacy?

Michael Cook | 13 April 2013 |
tags: India, Kazakhstan, surrogacy
CBS twigs to the dangers of surrogacy in India and commercial surrogacy spreads in Kazakhstan

Suicide the leading cause of death for young Indian women

Xavier Symons | 28 March 2013 |
tags: India, sex-selective abortion, suicide
Is this related to sex-selective abortion?

Indian gynaecologist jailed for organising massacre of Muslims

Michael Cook | 09 March 2013 |
tags: genocide, India
One of the more fundamental and easily grasped obligations of the ethical obligations of a doctor is not to incite people to mass murder. However, an Indian gynaecologist who ran a maternity home in Gujarat has been jailed for 28 years over the slaughter of 96 Muslims in 2002.

Horror in a mass sterilization camp in India

Xavier Symons | 02 March 2013 |
tags: India, population control, sterilization
Earlier this month four doctors in a West Bengal public hospital performed up to 106 sterilization operations in a single day, with hospital staff dumping patients in a nearby field to recover.

India cracks down on surrogacy

Michael Cook | 18 January 2013 |
tags: India, surrogacy
Is India finally cracking down on surrogacy for foreigners? The blogosphere is abuzz with news of stiff new regulations.

Police investigate Ahmedabad surrogacy racket

Michael Cook | 18 January 2013 |
tags: India, surrogacy, trafficking
The seamy side of Indian surrogacy has emerged in a murky saga which police are investigating in Ahmedabad. Loose regulations and corrupt officials make it easy for surrogacy to turn into baby-trafficking.

India wants more compensation for victims of clinical trials

Michael Cook | 24 August 2012 |
tags: clinical trials, India, research ethics
New rules in India will force pharmaceutical companies to pay higher compensation if patients in clinical trials die or are injured.

Surgery scam leaves thousands of Indian women unable to bear children

Michael Cook | 20 July 2012 |
tags: India, malpractice
Surgeons may have removed the wombs of 7,000 healthy women in Chhattisgarh – a poor and largely rural state in central India -- to make claims under a national insurance scheme. Officials believe that about 2,000 women were persuaded to have hysterectomies in the last six months alone.

17-year-old Indian girl dies after egg donation

Michael Cook | 14 July 2012 |
tags: egg donation, India, IVF
Almost two years after she died, no one involved in the death of 17-year-old Mumbai woman Sushma Pandey is facing charges. Ms Pandey, who was earning 4,500 rupees a month working in a scrap depot, and donated eggs three times in 18 months at an IVF clinic, the Rotunda Center for Human Reproduction.

Surrogacy a US$2.3 billion industry in India, with 1,000 clinics

Michael Cook | 02 June 2012 |
tags: India, surrogacy
An investigation by the London Sunday Telegraph has finally begun to give an idea of the scale of the surrogacy industry in India. According to a senior official in India’s health department, there are between 600 and 1000 IVF clinics – all operating without any regulation. Turnover in the industry is thought to be about US$2.3 billion.

Family of Indian surrogate gets some compensation for her death

Michael Cook | 26 May 2012 |
tags: India, surrogacy
The family of an Indian surrogate mother from Gujarat who died in the eighth month of her pregnancy (see last week's BioEdge) has been given four times the amount she was to have been given for carrying the baby. As compensation, 10 lakh rupees (about US$18,000) will be deposited in a trust account.

Indian surrogate for US woman dies in Gurjarat

Michael Cook | 18 May 2012 |
tags: India, surrogacy
Indian IVF clinics are glad to showcase their bevies of happy surrogate mothers who have become pregnant for foreign couples who want children. But not necessarily the surrogates who die.

Women strap on bellies to keep surrogacy secret

Jared Yee | 05 May 2012 |
tags: India, surrogacy
Many women in India who hire surrogates use fake tummies to keep the surrogacy a secret, the Times of India reports.

Women’s rights violated in India’s surrogacy capital: study

Jared Yee | 10 March 2012 |
tags: human rights, India, law, surrogacy
A recent study published by the Centre for Social Research in India claims that women’s rights in India’s surrogacy capital, Anand in Gujarat are being violated.

Lost in surrogacy’s Bermuda Triangle

Michael Cook | 03 February 2012 |
tags: India, surrogacy
Just when you thought that surrogate motherhood could not get more bizarre and complicated, a news flash comes from Hyderabad, the centre of the Indian surrogacy industry. This story concerns J. Pearl Linda Van Buren Green, a 35-year-old New Yorker, and her son Emperor Kaioyus Van Buren Green.

The grubby reality of Indian surrogacy

Jared Yee | 17 December 2011 |
tags: India, surrogacy
From the outside, it’s a two-room apartment. However, within its walls, it’s a barn for 15 surrogate mothers, all at various stages of pregnancy.

Questions over clinical trials in India

Jared Yee | 24 November 2011 |
tags: clinical trials, India, research
Western pharmaceutical companies have pinpointed India as a prime candidate for outsourcing clinical trials, due to its population and lax regulations, which help slash research costs.

Defending the rights of surrogate mothers in India

Jared Yee | 15 October 2011 |
tags: India, law, surrogacy
Commercial surrogacy is booming in India.
 
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