An Israeli lesbian couple have both been recognized as the mothers of a baby boy by the court, in an unprecedented move for the country.
The lesbian couple underwent a medical procedure with the permission of the government six years ago, in which the egg of one woman was fertilized with the sperm of an anonymous donor and implanted in the womb of her partner.
Their son was born in 2007, but Israel’s Interior Ministry said the woman who donated the egg would have to apply for adoption.