Abortion and Human Rights: legal developments in Europe may open the door to wider availability of abortion in Ireland.

Conscience | December 22, 2006| | Copyright

THE EUROPEAN COURT OF Human Rights has been examining the abortion issue in two cases against Ireland and Poland. In D v. Ireland, the applicant was expecting twins. After a scan, she learned that one twin had died in utero. An amniocentesis test showed her other twin had trisomy 18, a fatal chromosomal anomaly. She wanted to terminate her pregnancy. Her doctors believed that was not possible in Ireland, so she traveled to the United Kingdom for a lawful abortion.

Tysiac v Poland concerns a severely myopic woman who was advised that continuation of her third ...

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