{"id":126269,"date":"2024-08-14T19:43:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T14:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?post_type=current-affairs&#038;p=126269"},"modified":"2024-08-16T13:28:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T07:58:18","slug":"egg-or-sperm-donor-has-no-legal-right","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/egg-or-sperm-donor-has-no-legal-right","title":{"rendered":"Egg or Sperm Donor has no Legal Right on Child: Bombay HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bombay High Court in a recent judgement ordered that<\/span><b> a donor of eggs or sperm does not have legal entitlement as the biological parent<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over the child.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><b>Details About the Case<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-126228 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/141-66bcad852a3e1.webp\" alt=\"Egg or Sperm Donor\" width=\"453\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/141-66bcad852a3e1.webp 945w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/141-66bcad852a3e1-300x217.webp 300w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/141-66bcad852a3e1-768x554.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Judgment:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Bench was hearing the plea <\/span><b>challenging a Trial Court order that refused to give the petitioner visitation rights<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and access to the twin daughters born through surrogacy.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judgment n<\/span><b>oted that the lower Court Order denying visitation rights to the petitioner was without proper application of mind.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bench <\/span><b>granted visitation rights and access to the twin daughters to the petitioner.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Judgement<\/span><b> referred to the National Guidelines for Accreditation, Supervision, and Regulation of ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology) clinics in India, enacted in 20<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">05 in its order.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Argument:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The woman (petitioner\u2019s sister) argued that she had a legitimate right over the twins as their biological parent.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The women volunteered to donate her oocyte (eggs) for her sister and brother-in-law who couldn\u2019t conceive naturally and said the sister<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"vc_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pw.live\/batches\/upsc?utm_source=seo+upsc+batch&#038;utm_medium=seo+upsc&#038;utm_campaign=seo&#038;utm_id=upsc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enroll now for UPSC Online Course<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><b>Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs)<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ART technologies<\/span><b> include all fertility treatments in which either eggs or embryos<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are handled.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Procedure:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The ART procedures<\/span><b> involve surgically removing eggs from a woman\u2019s ovaries,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> combining them with sperm in the laboratory, and returning them to the woman\u2019s body or donating them to another woman through surrogacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Exclusion: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ART technologies does not include treatments<\/span><b> where only sperms are handled i.e., intrauterine or artificial insemination <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or procedures in which a woman takes medicine only to stimulate egg production without the intention of having eggs retrieved.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>The First ART Treatment:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The first successful in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment was<\/span><b> carried out on humans in 1978 in England<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>ART in India: India\u2019s first IVF baby, Kanupriya alias Durga, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was born in Calcutta on October 3, 1978, is also the <\/span><b>world\u2019s second IVF baby born<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> only two months after the world\u2019s first IVF baby, Louise Brown.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Use: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Vitro Fertilisation is<\/span><b> employed for infertility related conditions like,<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Infertility: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">male factor infertility, diminished ovarian reserve, ovarian failure (with donor eggs), ovulatory dysfunction, and unexplained infertility, tubal factor infertility, uterine factor infertility etc<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IVF can be used in patients <\/span><b>desiring preimplantation genetic testin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">g before conception 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