Rupali Tewari, a senior journalist, opens up about why she opted for surrogacy, the joy the choice has brought to her, and why she is saddened by the recently proposed surrogacy bill.
IN MY 20-YEAR-LONG career as a TV journalist, I’ve enjoyed a few days in the sun, days when a story or show that I did made a difference in someone’s life, moments that gave me a general sense of achievement. In my earlier avatar as a basketball player, I derived the same gratification while playing and leading my state team at the national level. My Everest moment was when I successfully finished my first-ever full marathon as a 30-year-old.
But take all my life’s accomplishments, multiply them several fold, and that’s how I felt when I held my firstborn for the first time. Till date, the biggest achievement of my life remains being a mother to a five-month- old. I’ll hazard a guess: Most mums would agree.
Jayshree Wad (the lawyer who first filed a petition against commercial surrogacy) and Sushma Swaraj (Head of the Group of Ministers who finalized the surrogacy bill) are mothers too. Proud mothers like me is a safe assumption. Though unlike me, they had the gift of bearing their own child. I, on the other hand, had to take the help of a surrogate. For that, I shall always remain envious of them.
As a young professional, I put marriage and kids on the back- burner (perils of working in the competitive and very demanding environment of TV journalism). I married at 35, and when—at 37 years of age—my husband and I decided to start a family, most doctors told us, I had missed the proverbial bus.
This story is from the October 2016 edition of Child India.
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