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The Bombay High Court held that merely donating eggs or sperm does not give legal entitlement to the donor to claim that he or she is the biological parent of the child
Case Background
A woman who donated her eggs to her sister (the petitioner) for surrogacy claimed biological parenthood after the petitioner’s husband left her and started living with the donor
The Bench was hearing a plea filed by a woman (petitioner) who challenged a trial court order that refused to give her visitation rights and access to her twin daughters born through surrogacy
HC Judgement
Donating eggs or sperm does not grant the donor legal rights to claim parenthood of the child.
The verdict was based on the National Guidelines for Accreditation, Supervision, and Regulation of ART Clinics (2005) and the Surrogacy Act, which outline that egg donors do not have parental rights.
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