Single Women

As per the ICMR there would be no bar to the use of ART by a single women who wishes to have a child, and no ART clinic may refuse to offer its services to the above, provided other criteria mentioned in this document are satisfied. The child thus born will have all the legal rights on the woman or the man.

The woman can be stimulated for her own eggs or can use donor eggs and can use donor semen for having an IVF baby. She won’t know the identity of the gamete donor.

Single women who intend to delay their conception are encouraged to get their eggs frozen and which can be used at a later date when she feels ready to have her child.