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Kerala High Court upholds surrogacy age limit, denies eligibility certificate to couple

September 03, 2026 2:46 pm

The Kerala High Court upheld the legal age limit for surrogacy, rejecting a couple’s plea after the husband crossed the prescribed age.

Kerala High Court IVF Couple Risk Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021

Kerala High Court lets couple continue IVF as treatment began before age bar

August 27, 2026 9:53 am

The high court was hearing a couple’s plea seeking permission to undergo IVF after they crossed the age limit prescribed under Section 21(g) of the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act 2021.

Who gets to be a parent? Changing family dynamics challenge IVF, surrogacy laws

June 14, 2026 6:50 pm

In the past year alone, at least 33 petitions have come before HCs, the leading contention being age limit. Petitioners also raise questions over embryo donation, gender gap, citizenship condition.

ART includes all techniques attempting to obtain pregnancy.

Can women beyond 50 years of age seek pregnancy through assisted reproductive technology, HC to decide

March 30, 2026 8:16 pm

The women challenged a provision of the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Act, 2021, which provides upper age limit of 50 years to a woman accepting donated sperm.

The police claimed that financially distressed women were offered money and were administered ovulation-stimulating injections, without proper consultation and in violation of the law.

How Thane’s egg donation racket points to multiple violations of fertility procedure laws

March 10, 2026 4:44 pm

Several women near Mumbai were forced to donate eggs, even as protection from commercial exploitation in IVF and other technologies has long been flagged as a concern.

Assisted Reproductive Technology, ART, IVF, donor eggs,

IVF donor egg case: Menopause no bar to ART, Punjab and Haryana HC rules

January 30, 2026 9:04 pm

A gynaecologist had certified the couple medically fit for IVF but initially refused treatment citing the husband’s age exceeding the 55-year limit under the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021.

Gauhati High Court was hearing hearing the plea of a married couple challenging the constitutional validity of Section 21(g) of the ART Act, 2021.

Based on science, ensures wellbeing of mother, child: Gauhati High Court junks challenge to ART provision prescribing age limit

December 19, 2025 5:58 pm

Gauhati high court art case: Chief Justice Kumar and Justice Choudhury said Section 21(g) of ART Act prescribes an upper age limit based on considerations of medical science, ethical standards, and the welfare of both the woman undergoing treatment and the child to be born.

Kerala High Court asks SIT probe into illegal surrogacy and egg donations through ART banks

Kerala High Court orders SIT probe into ‘illegal’ surrogacy, egg donation

December 09, 2025 11:55 am

Kerala High Court surrogacy probe, Surrogacy Regulation Act 2021: Justices Devan Ramachandran and M B Snehalatha were hearing a plea filed by an Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) bank seeking the release of certain persons allegedly detained by the police and the district medical officer.

ART Bill plugs longstanding regulatory deficit. Ways must be found to make it more inclusive

December 06, 2021 9:46 am

🔴 It seems that the heteronormative line of thinking of the Surrogacy Bill passed by the Lok Sabha in 2019 — the Rajya Sabha referred it to a select committee — has driven the ART Bill when it should have been the other way around

Explained: What's in ART, Surrogacy Bills

December 03, 2021 7:07 pm

🔴 Lok Sabha has passed the Assisted Reproductive Technology Regulation Bill, after the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill two years earlier. What is the difference, and how does the new Bill propose to regulate ART?