IVF Births: High Court Serves Key Verdict!

Surrogacy births are on a rise in the country due to various reasons. Be it lifestyle changes or food changes men and women are unable to welcome children. That’s where surrogacy comes in handy as donors come forward to donate eggs or sperm. With the rise in the practice controversies around them are also on an uptick.

Now a High Court has given a massive verdict and said that egg donors cannot claim a right on the baby. Hearing a petition filed by a lady the Bombay High Court gave the verdict and said that donors cannot claim the right.

Going into details a woman who lives in Navi Mumbai moved the High Court. The woman has two twin daughters born via In vitro fertilization(IVF). The woman’s sister donated her eggs for this and the twins were born. However, the woman was reportedly not allowed to meet her daughters.

The couple welcomed the twins in 2019 and they stayed together until 2021. Without informing the wife, the husband reportedly took the daughters to Jharkhand. Adding fuel to this, the woman’s sister also moved into the house. The Husband said that his wife’s sister would take care of the twins.

With this, the petitioner filed a case and approached a lower court. With no relief, she knocked on the doors of the High Court. The bench of the High Court led by Justice Milind Jadhav heard the petition and gave a key verdict.

The High Court said that egg donors, or oocyte voluntary donors can be genetic mothers but they cannot claim themselves as biological mothers. Having said that the Bench observed they cannot claim a right on the children.