India: Assisted Reproductive Technologies counter-productive to women: study

April 9, 2007

Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) have negative implications on the lives of women in terms of furthering their subjugation in society, increasing pressure towards motherhood, and their exploitation by way of monetary incentives for selling or renting reproductive “raw material” such as ova and uteri, according to a study carried out by Sama — Resource Group for Women and Health, a Delhi-based voluntary organization. (The Hindu)