It is against our ethos.”The crux of the problem for her doesn’t seem to be infertility or surrogacy, but morality. And anything against “our ethos”, which Swaraj sees clearly in black and white despite India’s technicolour canvas, has to be banned. The minister’s self-righteousness has taken away the focus from the person this law is supposed to protect: the poor surrogate who rents her womb. The surrogate’s uterus is prepared by giving her the two hormones estrogen and progesterone in sequence to simulate the surrogate’s natural cycle and thicken the walls of the uterus. A third injectable drug leuprolide is occasionally added to prevent the surrogate’s cycle from starting at the wrong time.

Source: Hindustan Times August 24, 2016 12:22 UTC