With commercial surrogacy banned in India, couples find refuge in Georgia

After the ban on commercial surrogacy in India, the business has been booming in the former Soviet republic of Georgia

For years, surrogacy has been the most viable option for Indian couples who struggle with infertility. As per data, one in six urban couples in India are infertile.

However, this all came to a halt after the central government passed a law banning commercial surrogacy in the nation last December. 

The change in laws hit the $375 million surrogacy business in India spread across 3,000 clinics. This is almost a tenth of the $4 billion global market for surrogacy, as per Global Markets Insights, and is expected to grow by almost a third by 2027.

With surrogacy not being an