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Surrogacy refers to the process of third party reproduction wherein a woman agrees to become pregnant and carry someone else’s baby under a contract. Whether the baby has any genetic connection to the surrogate depends on the kind of surrogacy method chosen.

Surrogacy in India is legal. It can be availed by heterosexual couples who are unable to bear a child on their own for some medical reason, by same sex couples, and by single men for whom surrogacy is the only way in which parenthood can be achieved. Also visit India Surrogacy Frequently asked questions. (The pic on the left is an African fertility symbol.)

We list below the important features of gestational and traditional surrogacy:

Features of Gestational Surrogacy:

1. Gestational surrogacy is an Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) where the surrogate plays ‘host’ to the embryo that is transferred to her uterus.

2. The embryo is produced through the In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) process, that is, the biological mother’s egg is mixed with the biological father’s sperm in a glass dish in the lab.

3. The process of gestational surrogacy: The surrogate starts taking

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Single men, who want to be fathers but do not wish to enter into relationships with women, are increasingly choosing the surrogacy route. Men being single parents is not new, of course: widowers and divorced men have always brought up children on their own. But the idea of single men wishing to be parents through surrogacy is definitely new.

Single fatherhood through surrogacy

The desire for fatherhood does not have to be necessarily connected to or dependent on a relationship with a woman. A large number of men opting for surrogacy are gay, though there are straight men, too, who wish to be fathers and not have a woman partner. Women chose to be single parents almost two decades ago and it now looks like men want similar status for themselves.

As with any new idea, this one too is going to take some time to be accepted, but is on its way there. Society is beginning to see that men, too, can have strong fatherly instincts and want to have a baby who has their genes. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) in its

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