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(wz) Childless couples are being exploited by ‘fertility clinics’, which are mushrooming all over the country. The central government is on the verge of coming out with a special law to regulate the working of these clinics, according to a statement in the Supreme Court of India made by the government last week.
This admission by the government exposes the mercenary ways of doctors, quacks and others in exploiting the demand for a child, which is an essential for a ‘successful marriage’ in an Indian family.
In a country where a woman is ‘incomplete’ unless she conceives (particularly a male progeny), the agony of a woman who does can only be imagined. An ‘infertile’ woman is often driven to desperation and depression. In this scenario come the babas, quacks and those with hi-tech formulae promising fertility to the ‘barren’ woman. It is an altogether different issue that about 55% cases of infertility arise due to problems in the male partner.
Males are often teased by their colleagues in office for their inability to ‘impregnate their wives’. While modern medicine practitioners have techniques like in-vitro fertilisation, injection of sperm into the ovum and even surrogate pregnancy, other practitioners sell a variety of ‘sexual tonics’, potions and concoctions. more…

From: »DNA« (Mumbai)

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