NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that an age bar on aspiring parents under the surrogacy law cannot be enforced retrospectively, and those who froze their embryos before commencement of the law, that is Jan 25, 2022, would be allowed to go for surrogacy irrespective of their age. It also raised questions over the rationality behind the age restrictions when there is no age bar for procreation or adoption. The Surrogacy (Regulation) Act sets age limits for intending parents and surrogate mothers. It says the intending mother must be between 23 and 50 years, and the intending father between 26 and 55. The surrogate mother must be married and be between 25 and 35 years, have a biological child, and act as a surrogate only once in her lifetime. It allows single women (widowed o

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