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People pursue surrogacy for a variety of reasons such as infertility, dangers or undesirable factors of pregnancy, or when pregnancy is a medical impossibility. A surrogacy relationship or legal agreement contains the person who carries the pregnancy and gives birth and the person or persons who take custody of the child after birth.
Altruistic surrogacy does not provide financial compensation to the surrogate mother other than medical expenses and insurance coverage during pregnancy. Commercial surrogacy includes surrogacy or related procedures performed for economic benefit or compensation (cash or in kind) beyond basic medical expenses and insurance coverage.
A surrogate mother is a woman who bears a child that came from another woman's fertilized ovum on behalf of a couple unable to give birth to children. Thus the surrogate mother carries and gives birth to a child that she is not the biological mother of.
Surrogacy is also simpatico with conservative or religious emphasis on the importance of family. In a saner world, surrogacy would be embraced by both devout feminists and devout Christians.
In Australia, all jurisdictions allow altruistic surrogacy; with commercial surrogacy being a criminal offense.In New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory it is an offence to enter into international commercial surrogacy [3] arrangements with potential penalties extending to imprisonment for up to one year in Australian Capital Territory, up to two years imprisonment in ...
Niyoga (Sanskrit: नियोग) was a Hindu practice, primarily followed during the ancient period. It was permitted for the widows or wives who had no child by their spouse to procreate a child with another man.
Mala Aai Vhhaychay! (transl.I Want to Be a Mother!) is a 2011 Indian Marathi-language film produced and directed by Samruoddhi Porey. The story deals with growing surrogacy practices in India, where women are used as surrogates by foreigners.
In another book by Majumdar, Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un)Making of Kin in India (2017), she discusses the similarity between Chori Chori Chupke Chupke and Doosri Dulhan. Majumdar describes the surrogate mothers as "fallen women" who are first portrayed as aberrant women with no interest in motherhood, who gradually develop a ...