Sunday, May 9, 2010

Gay father,surrogate mother & Jewish identity


Haaretz

A homosexual father of twins who were born to a surrogate mother in India is being denied permission to enter the country with his infant sons. The move stems from a family court's refusal to issue a standard legal order that would pave the way for the children to obtain Israeli citizenship.

For the past two months Dan Goldberg and his twin sons, Itai and Liron, have been staying at a Mumbai hotel, awaiting permission from the Jerusalem Family Court to proceed with a paternity test that would determine whether he is indeed their biological father. [...]


1 comment:

  1. In the Torah it is written that if a woman starts to conceive and gives birth to a boy, then on the 8th day he should be circumcised. We must admit that the recipe for the male origin is not considered here, but we are talking about future surrogate mothers. It is alleged that in the case of replanting a non-Jewish surrogate mother, a fertilized Jewish ovule of a newborn should not be circumcised - it is a non-Jew.

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