Israel top court approves surrogacy for same-sex couples | Malay Mail

TEL AVIV, July 11 — Israeli same-sex couples can have children via surrogates within the country, the Supreme Court ruled today, a step advocates hailed as strengthening equality and critics blasted as eroding family values.

Israel is a leader in the Middle East on LGBTQ rights and has several openly gay men serving in parliament, but until now surrogacy remained off-limits to gay couples and single men. The male same-sex couple Etai and Yoav Arad-Pinkas in 2010 first appealed to the courts for the right to surrogacy. ‘Equality, finally!’

After Israeli elections in March yielded a new parliament, lawmakers continued to come up empty-handed.

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