Israeli Supreme Court OKs surrogacy for same sex-couples, single men
Israel’s High Court of Justice said restrictions barring same-sex couples from using surrogate mothers to become parents must end in six months.
In a win for LGBTQ activists, on Sunday Israel’s High Court of Justice gave the green light for same-sex couples to use surrogates to become parents.
Last year, the court struck down a contentious 2018 law that barred gay couples and single fathers from using surrogates, saying the law “disproportionately harmed the right to equality and the right to parenthood.”
Israeli lawmakers were given a year to pass a new law, but the Knesset blew through the March 1 deadline and the July 6 extension.
The court said Sunday, “Since for more than a year the state has done nothing to advance an appropriate amendment to the law, the court ruled that it cannot abide the continued serious damage to human rights caused by the existing surrogacy arrangement.”
