Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that its surrogacy laws are discriminatory, and that same-sex couples and single men should be able to have children through surrogacy. The ruling gives the Israeli parliament one year to pass new legislation.
An article in BioNews states that the current law in Israel only permits heterosexual couples or single women who are unable to carry a pregnancy to access surrogacy, meaning that the only option for Israeli same-sex couples is to search for a surrogate in another country, which may be substantially more difficult and costly.
In a unanimous ruling, a panel of five judges said that current surrogacy laws ‘disproportionately violate the right to equality and the right to parenthood of these groups and are illegal.’
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