Pioneering surrogacy case tests local judiciary

With many couples struggling to conceive, the evolution of medical science has come as a Godsend, providing many options and opportunities over and above adoption.

Surrogacy is the on the rise worldwide and recently the debate over the practice has engrossed public debate, via a case currently going through the judiciary. Surrogacy is an arrangement or agreement where a woman carries a pregnancy on behalf of a separate couple who are unable to have children on their own. The practice involves fertilising an egg outside the body or in vitro fertilisation, with the resultant embryo transferred to a surrogate being the woman who will carry the pregnancy.