Tag Archives: Surrogacy
Irit Rosenblum’s dream comes true
Woman gives birth using dead man’s frozen sperm In precedent setting case, bereaved parents gain granddaughter after finding woman intent on motherhood, not sperm bank. Irit Rosenblum: this provides women with new ‘avenue of motherhood’ Eti Abramov “Yedioth Achronot”© R., a three-week-old baby, will never get to meet her father, who died of cancer six […]
להמשך קריאה Woman’s dream to have child fulfilled after death Thanks to frozen embryos, surrogate mother / David Regev, Israel news
Woman’s dream to have child fulfilled after death – Thanks to frozen embryos, surrogate – Nissim Ayish makes late wife’s dream to become mother come true two years after she dies from deadly tumor
להמשך קריאה First Israeli Baby Born From Mother’s Frozen Embryos
New Family’s Biological Will Initiative enabled the birth of the first Israeli to be born from his deceased mothers frozen embryos and carried by a surrogate mother. The family celebrated the baby’s Brit Milah (ritual circumcision) in New York on Monday, when he was given the name his parents chose for him. “I’m happy that […]
להמשך קריאה Global Biological Will™ Precedent: Baby Born From Frozen Embryos After Mothers Death
In the first decision of its kind, The Ministry of Health in July 2010 awarded a 40-year old widower custody of the frozen embryos that he and his wife Keren created in fertility treatments before her unexpected death. Prior to the women’s death, she signed legal documents expressing her desire for their embryos to be […]
להמשך קריאה Surrogacy
By advocating use of technologies such as artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, egg donation, freezing ova for future use, posthumous sperm retrieval, and surrogacy, New Family offers people new ways to establish their families. Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman agrees to become pregnant and deliver a child for a contracted party. Surrogacy […]
להמשך קריאה Made in Heaven-Tablet Magazine
By Michelle Goldberg Israel has enthusiastically embraced advanced reproductive technologies. Now a court is considering whether parents have the right to use their dead son’s frozen sperm to create posthumous grandchildren. Last fall, 27-year-old Ohad Ben-Yaakov was injured in an accident at his part-time job, and he died after two weeks in a coma. Ben-Yaakov […]
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President Shimon Peres yesterday joined the campaign to allow a gay father to bring his infant twin sons
May 20, 2010 President Shimon Peres yesterday joined the campaign to allow a gay father to bring his infant twin sons, who were born to a surrogate mother in India, to Israel. Dan Goldberg has been stranded with the twins in a Mumbai hotel for two months, due to the Interior Ministry’s refusal to administer […]
להמשך קריאה Advocate Irit Rosenblum: The Ministry of Health is Preventing a Widower from Bringing His Children to the World
The Ministry of Health will not allow a 40-year old widower to actualize his right to parenthood and to execute his deceased wife’s will to bring their children to the world. New Family organization, which is handling the case, asks to respect the widower’s right to parenthood and to carry out his deceased wife’s will. […]
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Legal ruling will allow gay men to adopt partner’s child
By RUTH EGLASH “This is a big step for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community in Israel,” commented lawyer Irit Rosenblum. A breakthrough legal ruling in the Jerusalem Family Court on Thursday will pave the way for homosexuals to officially adopt their partner’s or spouse’s child, the Tel Aviv-based New Family organization told The […]
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Israel’s Double Game on the Surrogacy Issue
By Irit Rosenblum, Founder and Executive Director of New Family Organization, and an expert on family law and fertility. The earthquake in Nepal reopened the surrogacy dilemma – whether the right to have children applies to Israeli couples who can’t have children naturally, including same-sex couples, and if so, how much responsibility do the […]
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