Associated Press. It then gave the Israeli government one year to pass a new law. However, parliament never did.On Sunday, the country’s Supreme Court said, “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.”Now, the change in the law will take place in six months by court order.
The time will allow the drafting of professional guidelines, according to AP.The gay couple who went to court against the surrogacy law back in 2010, Etai and Yoav Pinkas Arad, said in a statement that the court’s decision “is a big step for equality not just for LGBTQ in Israel, but for.