Latest Assisted Reproductive Technology Act News & Updates

New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) The Delhi High Court has allowed the wife of an Indian Army soldier in a persistent vegetative state to seek retrieval and cryopreservation of his sperm for IVF treatment, holding that his prior consent to undergo assisted reproductive treatment before the accident would be treated as sufficient compliance under the law.A single-judge Bench of Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav passed the order while hearing a plea filed by the wife of a Lance Naik, seeking directions t…

New Delhi, March 5 (IANS) The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report which highlighted an alleged illegal racket involving the extraction and sale of eggs from financially vulnerable women in Maharashtra’s Badlapur area.Describing the report as “disturbing”, the Commission said the revelations point to an organised network that exploited women through repeated commercial egg donations, in clear violation of the provisions of the Assisted Reproductiv…