Keywords
Fertility
Surrogacy
Physical Health
Motherhood
Mental Health
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Abstract
Surrogacy is a biomedical as well as a social practice as it involves either artificial insemination or embryo transfer to pregnancy and childbirth. Surrogacy arrangements have been condemned by many people of different religious groups and some accept it openly as they find there is nothing wrong with surrogate motherhood. Some feminists say that women should have control over their own bodies to become a surrogate mother, as it is just a reproductive choice of a woman, who wanted to become a surrogate mother. The present study was conducted in the Lucknow city of Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is also the capital of Uttar Pradesh. There are many IVF and fertility centers in Lucknow such as – Indira IVF and fertility, Javitri IVF and fertility, Crysta IVF and fertility, Genix fertility, Nova IVF fertility, Sahara fertility and IVF, Vashundara IVF and fertility etc. The study is done as a case study collecting the samples by snowball sampling method. The researcher met three women personally, who became surrogate mothers (during 2007 – 2012) and conducted an informal interviews in order to know their views on surrogacy
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