Women’s rights being violated in India’s surrogacy capital

A study by the New Delhi-based Centre for Social Research (CSR) has pointed to a grave violation of the women’s rights at India’s surrogacy hub, Anand in Gujarat.

“All surrogate mothers in Anand belonged to male-headed households. This fact to a great extent reveals that a woman becomes a surrogate mother with her husband‘s approval in order to support the family income,” the study by CSR in Surat, Jamnagar and Anand said.

The study, released Friday, was conducted among 100 surrogate mothers and 50 commissioning parents who had opted for in vitro-fertilisation (IVF).
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