Becoming a parent is one of the most beautiful feelings in the world, but sometimes becoming a mother becomes difficult due to problems. For this, couples resort to various techniques and options, one of which is surrogacy. Nowadays, having children using this technology has become a common thing.

Surrogacy is no less than a boon for those couples who cannot become parents due to any kind of problem. In such a situation, a woman is chosen who can keep the child in her womb for 9 months and hand it over to you after birth, who is called a surrogate mother. However, getting surrogacy help in India is not that easy now.

What is surrogacy?

Surrogacy is the entire process in which a couple takes the help of another woman's womb to have a child. In simple language, it can also be called a borrowed womb. Those women who cannot become mothers themselves can take the help of this technique. Before surrogacy, there is a legal agreement between the woman carrying the child in her womb and the couple undergoing surrogacy.

Many Bollywood celebrities took the help of surrogacy.

Talking about Bollywood, some many actors and actresses took the help of surrogacy to expand their family. When Shahrukh Khan became the father of his third child Abram, he was 47 years old and Gauri had also crossed the age of 40. Apart from these, Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao took the help of surrogacy for the birth of their child Azad. Whereas, filmmaker Karan Johar did not marry but in the year 2017 he became the father of two children Yash and Roohi. Priyanka Chopra and singer Nick Jonas also took the help of surrogacy to become parents.

But if these film stars had taken this decision of surrogacy today, it would have been difficult. The rules regarding surrogacy in the country have been made strict, due to which couples are going abroad with their desire to become parents through surrogacy.

Why are people going abroad for surrogacy?

Surrogacy in India is no longer easy because the government has changed the rules regarding it in the country. In such a situation, it will not be easy for the couples who were considering surrogacy as an option to become parents, to give birth to a child in a borrowed womb. First of all, it is important to know what the current rules of surrogacy in India say.

What are the rules of surrogacy in India?

Legal expert Charuwali Khanna said that after the strictness of the Surrogacy Regulation Act 2021, now the couple will have to find surrogate help among their relatives to get the surrogacy done. Apart from this, the couple will not be able to pay any money to the surrogate mother for surrogacy. Due to the strictness of these rules, those who wish to become parents are looking for other ways, and hence they are moving abroad. Legal experts believe that there is still a lot of scope for improvement in the rules of surrogacy.

According to gynecologist Archana Dhawan Bajaj, even today there is a very high number of such couples who are unable to become parents due to medical conditions and want to give birth to a child through surrogacy, in such a situation the amendment in the surrogacy law will prove difficult for them.

Who can get surrogacy done in India?

Married couples can take the help of surrogacy. But they can do this only when they can't become parents due to some medical issue. Widow or divorced women can take the help of surrogacy, but for this, two conditions will be applicable to those women, firstly, their age should be between 35 to 45 and secondly, they will have to use their eggs for surrogacy.

Who cannot take the help of surrogacy in India?

Unmarried people are out of its scope. That means, if you are single and want to become a parent, now you will not be able to get surrogacy done. Besides, couples who live in a live-in relationship will also not be able to take the help of surrogacy. Whereas LGBTQ or homosexual couples who wish to become parents cannot become parents through surrogacy.

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