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.
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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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