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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3686</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url">http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.13917</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Infertility, Assisted Reproductive Technology and Motherhood in the Context of Indian Society&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Borah</surname><given-names>Gitika</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kalita</surname><given-names>Mouchumi</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>7</day><month>05</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>22</fpage><lpage>25</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: In Indian societies, infertility has been considered a disease even after developing several alternative ways to have a child in the field of medical science. Despite knowing the fact that the inability to have a child may come from both husband__ampersandsignrsquo;s side or wife__ampersandsignrsquo;s side, most of the time it is the woman or wife who is considered responsible and blamed for infertility. Apart from a willingness to have a child, various other reasons like familial pressure, societal pressure, stigmatising a woman for not being able to conceive a baby, etc. compel a woman to take help of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs).&#13;
Objective: This paper is an endeavour to understand the issue of infertility in the context of Indian society along with the impact of ARTs on women.&#13;
Methods: The present study follows a descriptive analytical method and the data are collected from secondary sources like journal and newspaper articles and government reports etc.&#13;
Results: It was found that infertile women have to face a lot of discrimination and abuse. Infertility is a taboo in Indian society. Therefore, women are ready to go to any extent to deal with such taboo and stigmas. ARTs are very costly and it__ampersandsignrsquo;s a very long process. It also has certain health-related side effects. The societal pressure is such that women go through all these difficulties to bear a child.&#13;
Conclusion: It is high time to destigmatise childlessness and be more aware of the rights of individual human beings. The women should be informed about the benefits and side effects of ARTs before undergoing such treatment.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs)</kwd><kwd> Infertility</kwd><kwd> Women</kwd><kwd> Societal pressure</kwd><kwd> Motherhood</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
