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(FILES) In this photograph taken on October 31, 2011, Dr. Nayna Patel (R), a pioneer of reproductive surrogacy in India, conducts an ultrasound on 30 year old surrogate mother – Rinku Macwan, bearing twin babies, at Kaival Hospital in Anand, some 90 kms from Ahmedabad. India has issued new rules January 2013 barring foreign gay couples and single people from using surrogate mothers in order to become parents, according to a notice on the home ministry website. AFP PHOTO/Sam PANTHAKY/FILESSAM PANTHAKY/AFP/Getty Images