Foreigners need proof of citizenship for
surrogacy
If the Surrogacy Bill being drafted by the government is passed by
Parliament, any foreign couple seeking a child to be born through surrogacy in
India will have to first obtain a guarantee that the government of the country
they reside in would allow them to take home the newborn.
The proposed legislation now being vetted by several ministries of the union government will make it mandatory for any foreign couple commissioning a surrogacy to obtain a written assurance from the government of the country of their residence or from that country’s embassy in India that the baby to be born would be permitted entry to their country as their biological child.
According to the draft Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, the couple will also have to furnish a certificate from the government of their country elucidating that it recognises surrogacy. The bill is being drafted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in consultation with Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Law and Justice.
The proposed legislation now being vetted by several ministries of the union government will make it mandatory for any foreign couple commissioning a surrogacy to obtain a written assurance from the government of the country of their residence or from that country’s embassy in India that the baby to be born would be permitted entry to their country as their biological child.
According to the draft Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, the couple will also have to furnish a certificate from the government of their country elucidating that it recognises surrogacy. The bill is being drafted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in consultation with Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Law and Justice.
The move is to ensure the citizenship of the
child to be born through surrogacy is intended to pre-empt legal complications
after the birth of the baby. The need to legally ensure the child’s citizenship
in the country his or her biological parents reside in was felt after the
harrowing experience that a German couple and their twins born to a surrogate
mother in India went through between 2008 and 2010.
Jan Balaz and Susan Anna Lohla had to fight a protracted legal battle as German Embassy in New Delhi refused to issue passports to their twins, Nikolas and Leonard, who were born to an Indian surrogate mother in Gujarat in January 2008. The embassy pointed out that German laws did not recognize surrogacy as a means of parenthood.
Source: www.deccanherald.com
17.09.2013
Now, tattoo-like skin patch that acts
as a thermometer
Washington:
Scientists have developed an ultra-thin tattoo-like patch that when glued to
the skin can be used as a thermometer to measure its temperature.
A
team of researchers from the US, China, and Singapore have created the small
patch that looks like a bar-code tattoo and is applied using special glue.
It
keeps working even when the skin to which it is attached twists and turns.
The
patch can measure body temperature (at the skin level) very accurately, and
over a continuous period of time.
Also,
because it measures heat at multiple locations (at the same skin site) at the
same time, the patch is capable of monitoring heat flow and the constriction and
dilation of blood vessels as they respond to the environment around them.
The
team claims that the patches can work in reverse as well, delivering heat to
the skin, if desired, simply by increasing the voltage, 'phys.Org' reported.
The
patch isn't ready for use by the general population just yet, however, as it
still requires an external power source.
The
team is investigating different sources for different types of patches - solar
for those applied to the skin and bioelectric for those applied inside the
body, such as to the outside of organs.
17.09.2013
If we don't
change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living
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