New Delhi:
Supreme Court
on Tuesday said not many
women
can afford to approach the apex court for relief in new
surrogacy rules
which ban use of
donor gametes
. Saying such relief cannot be limited to a few, it asked government to re-examine the amendment to address the grievances raised by a large section of women.
Besides banning use of donor gametes by couples opting for surrogacy, a notification issued in March last year mentioned that single women (widow/divorcee) undergoing surrogacy must use their own eggs and donor sperms to avail surrogacy procedure.
Earlier, Rule 7 framed under the Act on 'Consent of the Surrogate Mother and Agreement for Surrogacy' talked about the fertilisation of donor oocytes by the sperm of the husband.
Aggrieved by the amendment which blocked the surrogacy process and shattered their dreams of parenthood, several women have been moving the SC for relief. The bench Tuesday allowed similar pleas of six such women from Kerala, Maharashtra, Haryana and UP.
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