Gay foreigners can take home India-born babies

[The Straight Story]

Gay and single foreigners will be able to take their born-in-India babies home.

The home ministry has decided to let babies - commissioned by gay and single foreigners after a July 2012 ban - to leave the country when they are born this year. Only heterosexual married couples are eligible for a medical visa to travel to India to commission surrogacy under the new visa rule.

Several hundred gays and singles, however, continued to hire a surrogate mother in India, unaware that the home ministry had shut the doors on them by changing the rules.

Australian gay couple Paul Taylor Burn and Josh who commissioned a surrogate mother in India last year is one of them.

Worried that their twins might end up being stateless due to the change in rules, a worried Paul this month appeared on an Australian TV show to ask, "Are the babies going to actually get their visas to exit the country?"

Home ministry officials said ignorance of the law normally is no excuse for violations.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Gay-foreigners-can-take-home-India-born-babies/Article1-1028568.aspx

[JI7]

1. the officials should worry about all the poor kids there

and improving their lives than about stupid bigoted laws like this.