Israeli Lesbian Couple Refused Surrogacy Procedure

The Israeli court clearly needs to rethink its views on surrogacy for singles and gay couples. Hopefully Liat Moske’s and Dana Glisko’s appeal will be successful. Read more from BioNews below.

A court in Israel has rejected a lesbian couple’s request to undergo a surrogacy procedure in the country. Liat Moshe and Dana Glisko, who have been in a relationship for ten years, rejected a proposal to have only part of the procedure performed in Israel, saying that the law is discriminatory.
The couple wanted Glisko to be implanted with Moshe’s fertilised eggs. However, current law in Israel only allows heterosexual couples to undergo surrogacy procedures. Homosexual couples wanting surrogacy are required to go overseas.
A seven-justice panel of the High Court of Justice rejected the couple’s petition to have a child by surrogacy without having to go overseas for the procedure. It ordered that the couple could have the egg extracted in Israel but that it must be implanted overseas, in accordance with a proposal made by the health ministry, reports Haaretz.
‘Everyone understands that the health ministry has taken a very significant step considering the law’s provisions’, the Supreme Court’s President, Justice Asher Grunis, said. ‘Therefore, it’s worth seriously considering the proposal’.
However, Moshe is a career official in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and claims that, as an officer, she is forbidden from having surgery abroad.
‘For a whole year now it’s been hard for me to come and wear a uniform and represent the state, because I’m fighting the state today’, said Moshe. ‘Aside from all the treatments I’m undergoing, which are hard to bear, I’m here because I feel I’m being discriminated against’.
Moshe added that the IDF would not pay for the procedure abroad, which lawyers representing the State said would cost around $3,000.

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Single Tampa man uses surrogate to become a father

TAMPA --
If you are a single man and waiting to have children, there are few options.
You could adopt or, with modern technology, you could find a surrogate mother. That's what a Tampa man did and he says it is the best decision he has ever made.
Single father Stafanos August has his hands full with not one, but two babies. His twins Nicholas and Alexandria are four months old.
"I met an attorney down here and thought about adoption and she opened up the world of surrogacy for me," August said. "Since I was like 10 years old I always wanted to be a dad, and so I decided to do it."
While raising infant twins alone is rarely easy, August says it is everything he expected and more.
"(I) burp one, put the next one down, so I need to be 10 steps ahead of them for sure," said August, who was able to choose his donor and the woman who would carry his baby



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