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Wednesday, July 18, 2018
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Protest in Tel Aviv after Knesset passes surrogacy bill excluding LGBT couples
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleHundreds of people are gathering in downtown Tel Aviv to protest legislation passed by the Knesset this afternoon that does not extend surrogacy rights to same-sex couples.
The surrogacy bill passed the Knesset vote as expected, but a last minute change removed a clause extending the right to men, which was proposed by openly gay MK Amir Ohana, a member of Netanyahu’s own Likud party.
On Monday, Netanyahu uploaded a video to his Facebook page, saying that he believed it “wasn’t fair” that Israeli surrogacy laws excluded LGBT couples. But today he voted against Ohana’s measure at the demand of the ultra-Orthodox parties in his coalition, who promised to support the contentious nation-state bill in a Knesset vote tonight.
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