India

Lost in surrogacy’s Bermuda Triangle

Michael Cook | 03 February 2012

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

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

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

Commercial surrogacy is booming in India.

Bollywood stays in the game with film about surrogacy

Jared Yee | 29 July 2011

Bollywood is keeping right up to date with bioethical dilemmas.

Are Indian doctors turning girls into boys for parents who wanted a son?

Michael Cook | 09 July 2011

If you are looking for lurid consequences of India’s worsening gender ratio, look no longer. Millions of girls are missing, aborted because of a deeply entrenched preference for sons. The consequence shortage of women has reportedly led to practices like kidnapping brides and wife-sharing. But in the north India city of Indore in Madhya Pradesh something even more bizarre is happening, according to the Hindustan Times. Couples are paying surgeons to do sex change operations on infant girls to tr

India in “cars for sterilisation” drive

Jared Yee | 08 July 2011

Health officials in the Indian state of Rajasthan are launching a campaign to curb population growth.

Deaf-mute gay couple creates child with Indian surrogate

Michael Cook | 18 June 2011

An Indian IVF clinic specialising in creating babies for gay couples has delivered twins to a deaf-mute gay couple from the United States. Rotunda-The Center for Human Reproduction, in Mumbai, targets gay couples and also organises Indian surrogates.

Indian women go to US to use sex selection to have sons

Jared Yee | 18 June 2011

While India has a problem with sex selection, it is – technically speaking – illegal. According to a University of California study, under pressure to have sons, some Indian women emigrate to the US to make use of the more readily available reproductive technologies and liberal abortion policies.

Melbourne egg donation hobbyist may hold world record

Jared Yee | 11 June 2011

When Melbourne office worker Faith Haugh, 41, exceeded Australia’s legal cap for individuals to donate their eggs, she went overseas to fulfil a desire to help infertile couples achieve parenthood.

Committee investigates ethical violations in HPV vaccine trials

Jared Yee | 04 June 2011

An expert committee set up to investigate the conduct of trials of human papillomavirus (HPV) in India has reported far-reaching ethical violations.

Girls increasingly aborted in India: study

Jared Yee | 27 May 2011

Indian families with one girl are increasingly aborting subsequent pregnancies when prenatal tests show another female will be born, according to a new study published this week.india

India’s bad sex ratio worsens

Michael Cook | 02 April 2011

Early returns for the 2011 census shows that the number of girls to 1,000 boys has shrunk to 914 girls to every 1000 boys, down from 927 in 2001.

India’s Supreme Court allows “passive euthanasia”

Michael Cook | 10 March 2011

Aruna Shanbaug, the brain-damaged woman who has lived in a Mumbai hospital for 38 years, should continue to live, the Supreme Court of India has ruled. Since the hospital staff are effectively her “next of kin”, a request for euthanasia made on Aruna’s behalf by activist Pinki Virani was turned down.

India moves toward regulating assisted reproduction and surrogacy

Jared Yee | 18 February 2011

Bill sent to law ministry for approval

New doco about Indian surrogacy

Michael Cook | 26 January 2011

Tracks an American couple and a Mumbai surrogate

At least it’s better than prostitution

Michael Cook | 10 December 2010

Surrogacy in India

India seeks to increase organ donors

Michael Cook | 03 December 2010

Lagging far behind the world leader

Euthanasia: the musical

Michael Cook | 13 November 2010

But everything in Bollywood is musical

Indian doctors seek clarity on embryo import law

Jared Yee | 15 October 2010

Govt responds to concerns of exploitation of surrogates