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Revisit law on IVF, set up reliable donor network
By Express News Service3 min read at The New Indian Express
In brief
The article criticizes India's 2021 Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act for creating a black market that preys on poor women seeking egg donation.
It cites a recently busted illegal network in Hyderabad as evidence that the law's strict altruism requirements and age limits for donors are unenforceable, and recommends that the government revisit the legislation and draw lessons from Spain's compensated donor system.
This is an AI-estimated analysis and may not reflect the article's actual intent or the publisher's editorial position.
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At a glance
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In trying to solve one problem, the government often creates another. The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act of 2021, a national law that came into force in January 2022, is one such example.
Its intentions are honourable, but in practice it has ended up defeating the very purpose for which it was enacted. An illegal network recently busted in Hyderabad, which was women to harvest their eggs for commercial in-vitro fertilisation, has once again revealed why.
That is the opening of The New Indian Express’s story. The full report is on their site.
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