{"id":303593,"date":"2023-12-15T18:39:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T00:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=303593"},"modified":"2023-12-14T18:11:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T00:11:10","slug":"european-court-human-rights-against-preborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/european-court-human-rights-against-preborn\/","title":{"rendered":"European Court of Human Rights rules against human rights for preborn children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ruled<\/a> that a Polish court that denied a woman an abortion violated the woman’s right to privacy. The woman appears to have only wanted an abortion because her baby had received a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Poland’s constitutional court approved a constitutional amendment to protect children with health conditions from eugenic abortions like the one this woman sought. Therefore, the woman was prevented from killing her baby in Poland and instead traveled to a different country in order to have her baby killed. The Court ruled<\/a> that this amendment violated the woman’s right to private and family life, but also ruled that it did not legally amount to “inhuman or degrading treatment.”<\/p>\n

Poland was ordered to pay the woman \u20ac16,004 in damages.<\/p>\n

Warning: Disturbing image below.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The woman, known as ML in court documents, became pregnant in 2020, and at 14 weeks gestation, her baby was diagnosed with Down syndrome. The woman then scheduled an abortion for January 28, 2021. Just one day before her scheduled abortion, however, Poland’s constitutional amendment prohibiting abortions on “eugenic grounds” took effect and her abortion was canceled. She traveled to the Netherlands where she had an abortion on January 29.<\/p>\n