Women’s Rights in India: Special Reference to Motherhood and Surrogacy

Abstract

Reproductive medical tourism has grown more popular, with India serving as a major destination for people from all over the world. During the past several decades, many childless couples have travelled to India in search of surrogacy. In India, the legal status of surrogacy is unmistakable. Gestational surrogacy is legal in India. One of the few nations where commercial surrogacy is still legal in India. However, there is no legal prohibition against commercial surrogacy in India. This suggests that although commercial surrogacy is not illegal in India, neither is there specific legislation regulating it. Even while women have benefited from increased access to educational and employment opportunities as a result of globalisation, the gap between the gender has only widened on a global and local scale. Consequently, gender contradictions are not unique to the surrogacy industry but characterise women's outsourced work everywhere.