External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj who headed the group of ministers (GoM) on finalising the Surrogacy Regulation Bill on Tuesday night tweeted in support of a British couple who has had a baby t
External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj who headed the group of ministers (GoM) on finalising the Surrogacy Regulation Bill on Tuesday night tweeted in support of a British couple who has had a baby through surrogacy in India but was facing issues while getting a British passport for their daughter, Lily, and might be forced to leave for UK without her.
“Should orphanage be the destiny of a surrogate baby ” Ms Swaraj tweeted.
The British couple, Chris and Michele Newman, are in Mumbai with a medical visa that expires on October 7 and baby Lily’s travel documents might not be ready by that time according to the British consulate. Ms Swaraj in her tweets questioned the British authorities and also asked the “advocates of commercial surrogacy” to come up with a solution, taking a jibe at the critics of the government’s new surrogacy bill.
The Newmans are among the last ones to have a surrogate child in India after the government banned commercial surrogacy and passed the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill last month.
