Commercialisation Of Surrogacy And Women’s Right To Health

Artificial Human Reproductive Technologies facilitated the infertile couple's dream of parenthood. Surrogacy is one such ART where a woman bears a child for the couple to produce children for the couples. Some consider surrogacy as the ray of hope, some recognize it as dehumanising women.. Over time, surrogacy is considered as business, this article discusses how surrogacy has been commercialised over the recent times, exploitation of women, ethical issues concerning surrogacy, Right to health of a surrogate mother and the need to regularise the legislation on surrogacy, thereby protecting most importantly the interest of the children. Keywords: surrogacy, commercialisation, exploitation, surrogate mother, commissioning parents, interest of the child