From the Jerusalem Post:
Many of the country’s most influential rabbinical arbiters have gradually changed their minds from considering the woman who undergoes in-vitro fertilization (IVF) with donor eggs the baby’s halachic mother, to regarding the donor – even if she is not Jewish – as the real mother.
Many of the country’s most influential rabbinical arbiters now consider the egg donor to be the halachic mother of an IVF baby.
This about-face in rabbinical opinion from two decades ago has developed recently but has not been made public before.
The new opinion, according to Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Halperin, means that the government bill to regulate the donation of ova must be passed immediately, even though it is "not perfect."
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