ETHICS OF FERTILITY TOURISM AND COMMERCIAL SURROGACY IN INDIA UNDER THE PERSPECTIVE OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Authors

  • William Eronimoose Camillian Pastoral Health Centre

Keywords:

FERTILITY TOURISM, COMMERCIAL SURROGACY

Abstract

Fertility Tourism is the latest sector of Medical Tourism (MT), wherein health seekers travel with the intention of attaining what is not available or prohibited in their home countries by making use of extreme applications of Artificial Reproductive Technologies (ARTs). Fertility tourists, more stringently infertile couples who are unable to conceive naturally, and more comprehensively gay/lesbian and single men/women who are still fertile or past reproductive prime but desire for children without marriage, procreation and family, travel to other countries to hire wombs-for-rent, that is, surrogate mothers who are legally made available through contracts and commerce to bear children. This is the latest revolution of Fertility Tourism for Commercial Surrogacy (FTCS), which is a multimillion industry in India because India, with CS Law (2002), renders hightech facilities with low-cost procedures of ARTs. While FTCS offers hopes to the fertility tourists, it is certainly manipulation of life and violation of dignity and rights. A probe into this problematic revolution of FTCS in India under HR perspective is a timely needed research.

Author Biography

William Eronimoose, Camillian Pastoral Health Centre

Rev. Fr. William Eronimoose, MI, belongs to the Order of the Ministers of the Infirm (Camillians), is a Bioethicist, Pastoral theologian and a Counsellor. After completing his licentiate in Bioethics (Regina Apostolorum, Rome) and licentiate in Pastoral Health Theology (Camillianum, Rome), he did his PhD in Bioethics in the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Rome. He has a Masters in Counselling and a Diploma in Health Care Assistance. At present, he is the visiting professor at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram (DVK), Bangalore, and Vinjananilaya, Eluru, AP. He is teaching Ethics in Nursing in St Philomenas Hospital, Bangalore and is the Director of Camillian Pastoral Health Centre, Snehadaan, Bangalore. Email: willimoose@gmail.com

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Published

2014-12-31

How to Cite

Eronimoose, W. (2014). ETHICS OF FERTILITY TOURISM AND COMMERCIAL SURROGACY IN INDIA UNDER THE PERSPECTIVE OF HUMAN RIGHTS. Asian Horizons, 8(04), 855–859. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/2699

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 04 (2014): ASIAN HORIZONS

Section

New Scholars