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Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, UT 160030, India. drbrsharma@yahoo.com
In the past two decades, there has been a spectacular change in the field of reproductive technologies. Reproductive sciences have come in with techniques such as donor insemination; in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer methods, which have completely revolutionized the reproductive environment. These techniques have given hope to many infertile couples, who wish to have a child of their own. With the oncoming of surrogacy agreements, concepts of fatherhood and motherhood have been subject to much controversy. Motherhood was never under much scrutiny as it was rightly thought that childbirth was the natural and conclusive fact establishing it, though paternity was at times a controversial concept burdening legislators to provide for suitable tests. Medical sciences have now compartmentalized motherhood into the genetic, gestational and the social mother leading to a clash of interests. This paper reviews some medicolegal, ethical and social aspects of surrogacy.
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