Proud Community Organizations To Arrange Surrogacy Abroad: "Relieve Difficulty"

In a court order, next month the state will issue a procedure that addresses difficulties and bureaucracy on gay couples seeking to have children. In a letter sent to the Director General of the Immigration Authority, organizations offered ways to improve the procedure, including legal relief and alternatives to prove genetic connection. "The conduct has become a nightmare"

Proud Community Organizations To Arrange Surrogacy Abroad: "Relieve Difficulty"

Next month, the state will have to publish a procedure that will regulate the issue of surrogacy abroad, according to the Tel Aviv Administrative Court's order. Prior to the publication, 14 gay community organizations contacted the director of the Population and Immigration Authority, Shlomo Moore Yosef, to demand relief for those couples who come across Economic and bureaucratic difficulties on the way to bringing their child to Israel at the end of the surrogacy process.

Every year, hundreds of civilians resort to surrogacy abroad to bring children into the world, many of whom are proud members of the community. The phenomenon, which has gained momentum in the last decade, is not regulated through clear and uniform procedures. As a result, these procedures face many difficulties and bureaucratic burdens. Existing is a consular procedure of the Foreign Ministry, which does not refer to the full picture on overseas surrogacy.

Justice Erez Yekutiel ruled last July that the Population and Immigration Authority should publish a procedure to address the issue by January 2020. Attorney Or Keshet from the LGBT Association urged Moore Joseph to hold a roundtable with representatives of the Association, in order to be able to voice their insights and demands The procedure. "We will ask the Population Authority and relevant officials to seize the opportunity to formulate a best practice that will serve the good of hundreds of Israelis and Israelis every year, somewhat reduce the tremendous difficulty with which they are faced, and even serve the authorities in preventing unnecessary embarrassment," he wrote. Representatives of the organizations and the CEO are expected to meet at the end of the month.

Proud community organizations have presented to the Population and Immigration Authority 11 applications to help solve the difficulties faced by many couples who bring children into the world through surrogacy procedures. The first of these is the issuance of a "First Evidence" certificate of genetic affinity for the intended parents of the child. , The Minister of the Interior may issue a newborn child abroad who will be allowed to enter Israel even if the genetic affiliation is proven.

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"How can a woman after birth leave everything and fly?" A sympathetic fan in Canada (Photo: Courtesy of the photographers)

Eran and Ohad (pseudonyms) a same-sex couple undergoing surrogacy in Canada (Photo: Courtesy of the photographers)

An unprecedented earthquake in Nepal

Organizations noted that this procedure had previously been done in emergency situations, with parents and children born in surrogacy being forced to remain in Nepal after an earthquake and now seek to extend authority to routine situations as well. Proud community representatives suggested some solutions to prove the genetic link, including proving a surrogacy agreement and legal validity, proving the child's very birth, and setting tough deadlines to prove genetic affinity after returning to the country. Today, these parents are forced to send genetic samples while they are still out of Israel in a cumbersome and expensive procedure.

Another requirement they have presented is to prove the severance of affinity with the carrying mother, during which the parents are required to bring the surrogate to the Israeli representative abroad so that they can declare it face to face by the state representative. According to the LGBT association, a heavy burden on the intended parents and the bearing is spoken. "There is no justification for this when, according to local law, the mother-mother's attachment is severed after birth, as is the case in the United States, for example."

"Take this opportunity to formulate a procedure that will serve the good of Israelis and Israelis." Demonstration of the LGBT community in Tel Aviv

LGBT demonstration (Photo: Walla system! NEWS)

The proud representatives of organizations are also asking for one of the legal procedures for obtaining a paternity order and a judicial parenting order. In order for the non-biological parent to be recognized as the child parent brought in the surrogacy process, the designated parents are required to apply to the Family Court to obtain a ruling on parenthood. Today, the state is opposed to consolidating the process regarding the paternity order and parents are required to submit a genetic affidavit to the biological parent along with a proxy order for the second parent. Thus, the parents are ordered to open two different legal proceedings and pay a court fee for each separately.

Another request is the funding of IVF procedures for which parents are eligible in Israel by virtue of a state health law. In the LGBT community, funding will also apply to Israeli spouses seeking to bring a child into the world through surrogacy. Another request is child health insurance before arranging his citizenship. Today, parents who are intended to pay out of pocket for child insurance until their citizenship is regulated in Israel. Months, and bring considerable financial harm to the regulation of the child's civil status.

Organizations have also sought retroactive recognition of parenting from birth to extract financial rights from birth rather than from registration. Another requirement that emerges from the letter is the registration of the child's last name on the birth certificate. The LGBT Association claims that due to the state's interpretation of the Names Act, same-sex couples have been forced to register the biological father's last name on the child's identity card, even though both are interested in a different surname.

Are forced to submit genetic tests in a cumbersome and expensive procedure. Pride parade in Jerusalem (Photo: Niv Aharonson)

Pride parade in Jerusalem, June 6, 2019 (Photo: Niv Aharonson)

"Not only are the state authorities discriminating against the proud community for access to surrogacy in Israel, they are also facing unnecessary difficulties for those who have to resort to expensive and complex surrogacy procedures abroad," said the LGBT director general, a strong sympathizer. To thousands of LGBT couples who only want to exercise their basic right and become parents. The court ruled that by January, the state should formulate an orderly procedure that would ease parents and mitigate some of the bureaucratic and economic conflicts involved. We work and work to ensure that the state respects and respects the state. According to him. "

The party that has joined the organizations demand for the publication of the procedure is the Israel House. Knesset Member Eli Avidar also sent a letter to Director General Mor Yosef requesting his assistance in the matter. "The State of Israel is investing a great deal of efforts and resources in assisting citizens and citizens who are facing difficulties in realizing parenting," Avidar wrote. The surrogate applicants need sensitive, fair and efficient treatment by the state in arranging the family unit. "

"Thousands of LGBT couples who only want to exercise their basic right and become parents." (Hazzaki (Photo: Omri Shapiro))

A strong sympathizer for the LGBT CEO (Photo: Omri Shapira, PR)

With a two-week-old baby at minus 10 degrees

Eran and Ohad (pseudonyms) from Tel Aviv, parents of Mia, told of the difficulties the Israeli bureaucracy overcame during the surrogacy process they underwent in Canada. "We returned to the country after a long process of surrogacy where a daughter was born to us, and the end of his conduct with the State of Israel became a nightmare," the couple described. "They could have made it easier for us, but where it was possible to make it easier, the conduct of the Israeli government vis-à-vis its citizens is simply degrading."

"We had to get the surrogate to sign a statement that she did not take a strong stance on the girl, even though she had already signed a similar statement with a Canadian lawyer," they explained. "And still, we had to take a woman who had just given a caesarean and drive her for two hours to sign an affidavit in front of the consul. There are times when no consulate is close and needs to fly. How can a woman after birth leave everything and fly?"

Another step in the surrogacy process that Eran and Dahli have experienced is the paternity test. "In order for the girl to be a citizen of Israel and for fear of not stealing a baby, we request that we send DNA samples to do a paternity test," the father said. "I can understand such a process being done in a third world country, but we did the process in Canada." The expensive test is carried out in a single laboratory of its kind in Tel Hashomer, "so we had to be carried with a two-week-old baby at minus ten degrees just to have the consul take DNA samples and send them to Israel."

"At the end of the day, there is no procedure in Israel that makes it easier for the citizen," the couple said. "Fill you don't let us have the surrogacy procedure in Israel and don't help fund the procedure, but I can't prove so many things while a woman can go to a hospital and enroll any potential man she wants as a father, even though he is not really the father, and they won't. Genetic testing. "

According to the two, "the most delusional thing is that the birth certificate we are both registered without the surrogate, but in Israel do not recognize this document and require genetic testing, adoption order and paternity order. And to exert hardship on its citizens. "