Central Govt employee opts for a surrogate child – What says CCS (Leave) Rules..?
Can Central Govt Female Employees Opting for Surrogate Pregnancy Claim Maternity Leave?
Women employees of Central Government
establishments are given Maternity leave for a period of 180 days and
male employees are given Paternity Leave for a period of 15 days if they
choose to adopt babies. At present, there is no leave entitlements for
parents of the surrogate child.
Let’s see what the Indian medical Research Council has to say about couples who choose to have babies through surrogate mothers.
Surrogacy: General Considerations
A child born through surrogacy must be adopted by the genetic (biological) parents unless they can establish through genetic (DNA) fingerprinting (of which the records will be maintained in the clinic) that the child is theirs.Guidelines for ART Clinics in India ICMR/NAMS
Surrogacy by assisted conception should
normally be considered only for patients for whom it would be physically
or medically impossible/undesirable to carry a baby to term.
Payments to surrogate mothers should
cover all genuine expenses associated with the pregnancy. Documentary
evidence of the financial arrangement for surrogacy must be available.
The ART centre should not be involved in this monetary aspect.
Advertisements regarding surrogacy
should not be made by the ART clinic. The responsibility of finding a
surrogate mother, through advertisement or otherwise, should rest with
the couple, or a semen bank.
A surrogate mother should not be over 45
years of age. Before accepting a woman as a possible surrogate for a
particular couple’s child, the ART clinic must ensure (and put on
record) that the woman satisfies all the testable criteria to go through
a successful full-term pregnancy.
A relative, a known person, as well as a
person unknown to the couple may act as a surrogate mother for the
couple. In the case of a relative acting as a surrogate, the relative
should belong to the same generation as the women desiring the
surrogate.
A prospective surrogate mother must be
tested for HIV and shown to be seronegative for this virus just before
embryo transfer. She must also provide a written certificate that (a)
she has not had a drug intravenously administered into her through a
shared syringe, (b) she has not undergone blood transfusion; and (c) she
and her husband (to the best of her/his
knowledge) has had no extramarital relationship in the last six months.
(This is to ensure that the person would
not come up with symptoms of HIV infection during the period of
surrogacy.) The prospective surrogate mother must also declare that she
will not use drugs intravenously, and not undergo blood transfusion
excepting of blood obtained through a certified blood bank.
No woman may act as a surrogate more then thrice in her lifetime
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