Major Highlights: The Surrogacy Regulation Bill, 2016

Lok Sabha has passed the Surrogacy Regulation Bill, 2016 on 19th December 2018, which completely banned the commercial surrogacy and only allows altruistic surrogacy. The main aim of the bill is to protect women from exploitation. Section 2 (zb) of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2016 defines Surrogacy in following manner: “Surrogacy" means a practice whereby...

Disabled Persons: Need Promotion rather than Protection !

Although, the present day society has accepted to some extent that even the differently abled people can also contribute to the progress of the society and therefore it has started recognizing the needs of such people but still it is more focused on protecting them rather than promoting them or giving them required opportunities for...