Door opens to Gay Couples for Surrogacy in Nepal

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Door opens to Gay Couples for Surrogacy in Nepal
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• A Cabinet meeting has passed the proposal tabled
  by the Ministry of Health and Population, opening
  the door to foreign couples to have babies
  through surrogacy in the country.

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Surrogacy is a process where people wanting
babies pay for another women to have their baby
delivered. Doctors say two methodstraditional
and gestationalare presently followed for
surrogacy. In traditional method, the sperm is
artificially inseminated in the mothers womb who
goes on to deliver baby on behalf of the couple
while in a relatively advance gestational method,
the sperm and egg from a father and mother is
first fertilized through In-Vitro Fertilization
and the embryo is placed in the surrogate
mothers womb.
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• The decision is likely to attract foreign couples
  who prefer to give birth in Nepal since the
  country is considered a safe and cheap
  destination. At a time when the Assisted
  Reproductive Technology (ART) Bill to tighten
  surrogacy is on the table at the Parliament of
  India, willing couples now have the option to
  give birth in Nepal.

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• Dr Guna Raj Lohani, chief of curative division
  said that they have developed a work-plan
  following the cabinet decision to ease the visa
  process, adding that a foreigner willing to give
  birth through surrogacy has to furnish documents
  that the sperm and ovum of the respective parents
  have been fertilised and that the embryo is
  implanted inside the womans womb. Once the
  required documents are in place, we provide an
  official recognition to the baby, said Dr
  Lohani. The birth certificate of an individual
  without citizenship has to be verified by the
  ministry before issuing a letter to the
  Department of Consular Services for visa purpose.
• Officials at the ministry say that at least five
  certificates of babies born through surrogate
  mothers, a majority of them hired by Israeli
  parents, have been verified before the rule came
  into existence. We stopped issuing such letters
  after we learnt about the surrogacy practices in
  the country, said a ministry official.

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Surrogate Mother Cost Nepal

• According to Dr Lohani, a majority of the
  foreigners had hired surrogate mothers from India
  before the babies were delivered in Nepali
  hospitals. But some say Nepalis take surrogate
  mothers to India for delivery for fear of social
  stigma. Sources claim that Nepali surrogate
  mothers are paid between Rs 300,000 and Rs
  400,000 for delivering a baby while the rate for
  Indian women ranges from 6,000 to 10,000.

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• The issue of surrogacy in Nepal first came to the
  fore in March 2011 after a case was filed at the
  Kathmandu District Court over the property rights
  of a baby delivered through surrogate mother. The
  court had ruled that the child is equally
  entitled to inherit parental property.
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• The ministry is working to develop an Act or
  Directive on surrogacy. Chief of Law section at
  the ministry, Babu Kaji Baniya, said that
  legalizing surrogacy itself has been disputed in
  several countries. We are working to develop a
  law on the issue in order to strictly regulate
  our health system, said Baniya.

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