‘We pray that this clinic stays open’: India’s surrogates fear hardship from embryo ban

A new law stopping Indian women carrying babies to term for foreigners has devastating effects on women at a Gujurat clinic – and couples from across the world

In the reception of the Akanksha fertility clinic, Dr Nayna Patel has an article pinned to the wall. “Anand clinic creates milestone with 1,001st baby,” the headline reads.

For the past 10 years, Patel’s surrogacy services have brought couples from around the world to this small town in Gujarat. At the end of October, the government sent a notice to fertility clinics across the country ordering them to stop all surrogate embryo transfers for non-Indian passport holders. Now only a handful of women, already pregnant, are waiting to deliver the last batch of foreign surrogate babies.

If the reason [for the ban] is that surrogates are being exploited, then why allow it for Indians?

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