The Oregon woman had met a New Zealand Couple over the Internet and accepted that she would carry their child. The intending couple had shipped her their gametes in a special container used to ship biological material. The couple state that Audrey Mogallon had received the container but did not return it. Later, she had sent the couple pictures of positive pregnancy tests and ultrasound scan reports, modifying the dates of earlier scan reports taken when she was pregnant with her own kids. The couple grew suspicious when the information stopped coming in. It was later that they came to realized that their trusts has been breached by her and that she was never pregnant with their child.

The police had also reported that they have received a second complaint relating to similar circumstances from a couple in Washington who had made payment to her upfront.

An unnamed Canadian couple who had taken up surrogacy created a new row of ethical  moral debates over their surrogacy arrangement. The surrogate mother was pregnant with their child using embryos created out of their own gametes. When in the womb of the surrogate mother, the child was found to have medical risks to be born with Down’s Syndrome. The Intended Parents who had come to know of this wanted the surrogate mother to abort the child. The surrogate mother refused for the same. However, when the intended parents threatened to withdraw their support for the surrogacy arrangement, the surrogate mother decided to abort as she had two kids of her own. Neither the intended parents nor the surrogate mother approached the court of law. The above case was reportedly enumerated by Dr. Seethram at the Canadian Society of Fertility and Andrology conference during his presentation. These facts had brought to the world a new set of issues where the surrogate mother would be required to decide freely without any coercive environment. The intervention of governmental agencies occupied a prominent scope in the debates.

robert-edwards surrogacyIndian Surrogacy Law Centre salutes Dr. Robert G. Edwards on being conferred The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the year 2010. The medical break through brought by him had certainly furthered the reproductive medicine beyond a normal scope. The Nobel Prize has found itself in the hands of a distinguished person, who has been able to withstand the pressure of the society in terms of the ethical concerns even at the most early times of his research in the human embryo. The birth of Louise Brown in the year 1978 to Lesley and John Brown had created history of birth of the first human through In Virto Fertilisation. IVF had moved from vision to reality and a new era in medicine had begun. Since then several improvements have been made in the field of embryology wherein work conditions have been greatly perfected.

It is also noteworthy that the world’s second IVF child “Durga” (Kanupriya Agarwal) and India’s First was born merely three months after the birth of Louise Brown which was performed by Dr Subhash Mukhopadhyay in 1978.