This paper evaluates the role being adopted by the European Court of Human Rights when
confronted with claims arising from the extreme restriction of access to abortion services in …

There is a high level of agreement in the EU Member States with respect to a woman's right
to abortion. Poland and Malta are the only exceptions to the liberal abortion regime in …

In the last 35 years of abortion-related judgments, the European Court of Human Rights has
been substantially consistent. On the one hand, it has primarily safeguarded women's …

A change can be seen in the international world of abortion advocacy, a movement from the
reform of laws to their implementation, from legal rights to legal services. This is perhaps a …

Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides a right to respect for private
life. This article is the first to consider this full body of case law; it critically considers the …

In recent years, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled on a number of cases
dealing with the issue of abortion, providing a sufficient corpus of jurisprudence which may …

Although there is no right to abort in English law but rather abortion is a crime, the lawful
grounds for which are instantiated in the Abortion Act 1967 (as amended by the Human …

The law relating to abortion has historically unfolded amid much controversy. Diverse social
and moral attitudes towards the termination of pregnancy must be distilled by politicians …

This paper comments on the views of the UN Human Rights Committee (hereafter the
Committee) in the cases Mellet v. Ireland [1] and Whelan v. Ireland [2]. It focuses on the …

Abstract In October 2020, the Polish Constitutional Court held unconstitutional an exception
in the Family Planning Act of 1993 that provided for legal abortion in cases of fetal …