{"id":248566,"date":"2023-06-19T19:46:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T14:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=248566"},"modified":"2023-06-19T19:46:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T14:16:34","slug":"birth-of-the-matter-single-persons-are-denied-the-right-to-be-surrogate-parents-on-fact-free-not-quite-scientific-vague-moral-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/birth-of-the-matter-single-persons-are-denied-the-right-to-be-surrogate-parents-on-fact-free-not-quite-scientific-vague-moral-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth Of The Matter – Single persons are denied the right to be surrogate parents on fact-free, not-quite-scientific & vague moral grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source:\u00a0<\/b>The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cBirth Of The Matter – Single persons are denied the right to be surrogate parents on fact-free, not-quite-scientific & vague moral grounds\u201d<\/b>\u00a0published in\u00a0The Times of India\u00a0<\/b>on\u00a019th <\/strong>June\u00a0<\/b>2023<\/b><\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of vulnerable sections.<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About Regulation of Surrogacy.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Recently, one of the last Indian singletons became a parent through surrogacy. This is because Surrogacy (Regulation) Act excluded single men and women ineligible for surrogacy alongside live-in and same-sex couples.<\/p>\n

About the Petitions on Surrogacy (Regulation) Act<\/h2>\n

Petitions challenging the exclusions have been filed in the court. The government said that \u201cthe prism of the welfare of the child\u201d is paramount.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the petitioners argue that a)<\/strong>\u00a0The law commission in its 228th report has advised the government not to \u201cProhibit surrogacy on vague moral grounds,\u201d b)<\/strong> The government’s welfare of the child concept does not make it clear why a single parent is considered hurtful to the welfare of a child, and c)<\/strong> The government consider Biology as the source of a strong emotional bond. But, the government’s opinion of the child being \u201crejected or uncared for by the parent who is not biologically related\u201d is not correct. For instance, too many biological children are neglected and even seriously abused by their parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Must read: <\/strong>Regulating ART and Surrogacy: Associated Challenges \u2013 Explained, pointwise<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What should be done?<\/h2>\n

Reproductive technology has advanced and revolutionized. So, citing tradition and saying who can or cannot be a family while embracing technology is wrong. Reproductive autonomy under Article 21 shouldn\u2019t be cancelled by prejudices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source:\u00a0The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cBirth Of The Matter – Single persons are denied the right to be surrogate parents on fact-free, not-quite-scientific & vague moral grounds\u201d\u00a0published in\u00a0The Times of India\u00a0on\u00a019th June\u00a02023 Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 mechanisms, laws, institutions and Bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of vulnerable sections. Relevance: About Regulation of… Continue reading Birth Of The Matter – Single persons are denied the right to be surrogate parents on fact-free, not-quite-scientific & vague moral grounds<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-248566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}