Surrogacy: A Comparative Analysis between India and US, 2022

“To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” Surrogacy is derived from the Latin word “surrogatus”, which means a person appointed to act in place of another person. Surrogacy is the process of carrying and delivering a child to the biological mother. A woman who cannot be a mother under normal circumstances or voluntarily decides to go for surrogacy chooses another woman who is in fit and healthy condition to keep the baby in her womb for a period of 9 months, later delivering and handing over the baby to the biological parents. It is a type of assisted reproduction in which a woman assents to becoming pregnant for the purpose of giving birth to a child who will be raised by others. Surrogacy has started to become the new normal. If you take a look around 4-5 years back, people were not aware of what surrogacy was and could not believe the fact that medical science has advanced so much that such a thing even exists. A woman who is unable to become a mother now has numerous options for experiencing motherhood through the process of surrogacy.