Volume : III, Issue : XI, November - 2014

Trade of Human Eggs-A Current Trend of Reproductive Organ Trafficking

Mrs. Pyali Chatterjee, Ms. Debmita Mondal

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Commercial Surrogacy has become one of the most flourishing industries for revenue generation. A direct impact is the increased trafficking of women and children from the entire world to meet the demand of their supply in such industries and mostly the victims of such crimes are from the poor societies of the world. For the process of Gestational Surrogacy, surrogate mother as well as egg donor is required and the egg should not belong to surrogate mother. The procedure of egg removal involves various severe side-effects because of the use of Synthetic Hormones and sometimes results in death of the egg donor. An infamous example of such dire consequence of egg removal is the Romanian Scandal in 2009 and the death case of Sushma Pandey of India, in 2010. Such instances grabbed the attention of the researchers, lawyers, medical professionals and human right activists universally and important questions relating to law regarding right and life of the egg donors and their trafficking are being raised and debated. The lack of laws and guidelines both at international and national level, for the removal of human eggs for surrogacy, is one of the reasons for victimization of egg donors. Neither the World Health Organization’s “Draft Guiding Principles on Human Organ Transplantation”, nor The Transplantation of Organs Act, 1994 in India deals with transplant and trade of human eggs. Even the ART Bill, 2008 of India is silent on this issue. Thus there is a need felt for international and national laws regulating removal of eggs and its trade for Commercial Surrogacy. The authors in this paper aim to survey the existing literature and propose appropriate guidelines and strict laws for the same.

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TRADE OF HUMAN EGGS-A CURRENT TREND OF REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN TRAFFICKING, Mrs. Pyali Chatterjee,Ms. Debmita Mondal GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-3 | Issue-11 | November-2014


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