The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Poland breached the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by banning abortions done on the basis of an unborn child’s disability.
The Nov. 13 ruling stems from the case of a Polish woman who in 2020 traveled to the Netherlands to have an abortion after she discovered that her unborn child had a genetic disorder. Earlier that year, a Polish Constitutional Tribunal ruling had sought to ban eugenic abortions, which aim to eliminate children who have disabilities. After the woman’s abortion, she challenged the Polish law, appealing to the European Court of Human Rights.
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