The ECtHR’s first advisory opinion: Implications for cross-border surrogacy involving male intended parents

This article examines the content and scope of European Court Human Rights’s first advisory opinion as regards practice cross-border surrogacy in Europe. While concerns recognition legal parentage an intended mother, this considers whether reasoning could be applied to male couples who avail surrogacy. It is argued that non-genetically related father couple a directly comparable position mother opposite-sex for purpose following