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‘Today, I am sorry to say this, lots of modern women in India want to stay single,’ declared the health minister of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. ‘Even if they get married, they don’t want to give birth. They want surrogacy. So, there is a paradigm shift in our thinking, which is not good.’

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