The Utah Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a portion of state law prohibiting same-sex couples from entering into a gestational agreements to have children is unconstitutional.
In the ruling, Chief Justice Matthew Durrant said “same-sex couples must be afforded all of the benefits the State has linked to marriage and freely grants to opposite sex-couples.”
According to FOX 13, the suit involved an unnamed same-sex couple from southern Utah and a heterosexual couple with whom a surrogacy agreement was made. The two couples filed a joint petition in the 5th District Court to validate the agreement.