Complex adoption laws breed commercial surrogacy: experts

Intricacies in adoption law have paved way for India to become the hub of commercial surrogacy which legal experts say poses many challenges for the country, including threats of mushrooming of rackets on the "renting of wombs" in absence of proper framework. The experts said the threat was manifested in the recent baby Manji's case which opened a Pandora's box with release of a floodgate of questions and issues related to ethics and legality surrounding surrogacy. The gravity of the issue was clearly reflected when Law Commission Chairman Justice A R Lakshmanan said the complexity in adoption here is behind the surge in "renting of wombs". "Child adoption in India is a convoluted issue. It is overburdened with knotty legal processes," he said at a seminar on "Commercial surrogacy in India -- bane or boon" and referred to the legal complexities brought before the Supreme Court in Manji's case which allowed the baby to be taken to Japan from where her biological father hailed. "Intricacies in law was responsible for the surge which is gradually being shifted towards the alternative of renting of wombs and IVF techniques," Lakshmanan said, adding, "India is emerging as a dynamic centre of a fertility market with its reproductive tourism industry estimated at Rs 25,000 crores," he said.

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