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Tag: Surrogacy

  • Couple moves Bombay HC seeking nod to complete surrogacy procedure

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: A couple on Tuesday moved the Bombay High Court seeking permission to complete a surrogacy procedure they had initiated in a city-based hospital before the new Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Act came into effect.

    The plea was submitted before a vacation bench led by Justice N W Sambre seeking urgent hearing, and it will be heard on Wednesday. The petitioner’s counsel, PV Dinesh, also sought that as interim relief, the couple be permitted to transfer their cryopreserved embryos from the said hospital to another fertility clinic.

    The lawyer said that while the couple’s fertilised embryo had been preserved by the hospital for transfer to a surrogate, the new Act came into effect in January this year. The new Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Act prohibits surrogacy unless it is purely altruistic.

    And among other stringent provisions, it mandates that only a married relative with a child of her own can act as a surrogate. The respondent hospital therefore, put the couple’s procedure on hold stating that they will need a court order to resume the procedure.

    The hospital’s counsel Anita Castellino told the bench that the provisions of the new Act were comprehensive and complex and that she needed time to file a comprehensive reply to the plea. However, the court said it will hear the matter on Wednesday before passing any orders.

  • Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas ‘want more kids’

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES: Indian actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas and her American pop star husband Nick Jonas hope to have “at least two children”.The 39-year-old actress recently announced the arrival of their first child, via a surrogate, and the couple intends to have even more kids in the coming years, reports femalefirst.co.uk.An insider told Us Weekly that friends of the celebrity duo are “excited” for the new parents, and the married couple are keen to have even more children in the future.The actress, who married the pop star in 2018, recently took to Instagram to announce the birth of their new baby.Priyanka said on the photo-sharing platform: “We are overjoyed to confirm that we have welcomed a baby via surrogate. We respectfully ask for privacy during this special time as we focus on our family.”The Hollywood star has previously spoken about her ambition to have children.Priyanka said she’s “very fond of children” and that she planned to have kids within the next decade.In 2018, she shared: “I am a very ‘live in the today,’ maximum ‘live in the next two months’ kind of person. But (in) 10 years, I definitely want to have kids. That is, it’s going to happen in the next 10 years. Well, hopefully, earlier than that.”I’m very fond of children and I want to be able to do that.”Priyanka and Nick were actually forced to spend much of 2021 apart, due to Covid travel restrictions.The actress recently confessed that the situation was “tough” for them to deal with at the time.