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European Court Orders Poland to Indemnify Mother for Child

By The Brussels Journal
Created 2007-03-20 19:34

A quote from Lifesite.net, 20 March 2007

The European Court of Human Rights handed down a 6-1 ruling today which demanded that Poland compensate a mother who claims she was refused an abortion based on discrimination due to her sex and her visual disability. […]

In 2004, the United Nations Human Rights Committee reprimanded Poland for its pro-life laws and demanded that the strongly Catholic nation “liberalize” its abortion laws. In January of this year, the UN committee that oversees the ‘Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women’ also took Poland to task over several pro-life issues including “accusations” that the Polish government promoted natural family planning over contraception and allowed pro-life doctors the right to employ a “conscience clause” in abortion matters.

Poland submitted her European Union accession treaty with the caveat that "no EU treaties or annexes to those treaties would hamper the Polish government in regulating moral issues or those concerning the protection of human life."

 
More on this topic:

EU Brings Down Slovak Government, 9 February 2006

Conscience, How Dost Thou Afflict Me! 7 January, 2006

EU to Catholic Doctors: Thou Shalt Abort, 24 December 2005


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http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1998