The Court said that the government notification does not disclose any rational justification for discriminating between citizens based on their ability to produce gametes.
Hence, it granted visitation rights to the mother of two children while ruling that her younger sister, who was the egg doner, cannot claim to be the biological mother.
The exclusion of queer and transgender persons from availing surrogacy amounts to discrimination on the ground of gender identity and sexual orientation, a transwoman and activist has argued before th ...
The top court issued notice in a plea challenging the constitutionality of Section 2(1)(s) of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021, which excludes unmarried women from becoming surrogate mothers.
The plea was moved by a married couple who faced infertility issues, making it difficult for them to go through with surrogacy without the use of donor gametes (reproductive cells).
A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan made the observation while granting relief to a woman suffering from an ailment that meant she could not produce her own eggs or oocytes.