Norway has been acquitted following a surrogacy complaint in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The complaint was about a case concerning parental rights.

The Borgarting Court of Appeal decided in 2017 that the female complainant did not have parental rights after the child’s biological father had a new girlfriend, writes Rett24.

The ECHR voted six to one that the woman’s right to family life under Article 8 of the ECHR had not been violated. The majority assumed that the surrogacy problem addresses “sensitive ethical issues where there is no consensus among the member states.”

The complainant and the man who was her cohabitant at the time had a child who was conceived with his DNA and with an egg cell from an unknown woman. Some time after the child was born to the surrogate mother, the child’s biological father got a new girlfriend.

Although the complainant had cared for the child for the initial period after the birth, she was left without legal or biological ties to the child. The child’s father would not give her permission to adopt.

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