The Supreme Court on Friday asked the government whether a single woman intending to be a mother through surrogacy will affect the legitimacy of child.
“If there is no marriage and children are born, which is the law that gives them legitimacy. Which is the law that gives legitimacy to children born outside a formal marriage, be it a void or voidable marriage? There must be the ceremony of marriage, is it not? Please enlighten us,” Justice B.V. Nagarathna asked Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the Union government.
The court was examining the question of single and unmarried women becoming mothers through surrogacy.
