India’s commercial surrogacy business has been the focus of intense media scrutiny for the past decade. In that time, it has grown from a $400 million industry to over $2 billion. While the growth in the surrogacy market has been rapid and widespread, the Indian government has struggled to regulate it as a business, as a medical practice and for the protection of surrogates. After nearly a decade of proposed draft bills, the government has yet to enact comprehensive regulatio

The following blog post summarizes The Political Economy and Legal Regulation of Transnational Commercial Surrogate Labor (48 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 1 (2015)) by Cyra Akila Choudhury. The commercial surrogacy business in India, a $2 billion industry, has been the subject of intense media scrutiny. Though helpful to childless families and lucrative to Indian women who serve as surrogates, the practice presents legitimate economic, medical, and safety concerns. Possibly more