Fri Jun 9, 2023 – 11:40 am EDT
STRASBOURG, France (LifeSiteNews) — The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected a case aimed at challenging Poland’s ban on eugenic abortions.
The ECHR has declared the applications of eight women in the case A.M. and Others v. Poland inadmissible because the applicants “failed to provide any convincing medical evidence proving that they had been at real risk of being directly affected” by the Polish law preventing women from aborting their child due to fetal abnormalities.
“The consequences for the applicants of the legislative amendments were thus too remote and abstract for them to arguably claim to be ‘victims’ within the meaning of the European Convention of Human Rights,” a court press release states.
The court also refuted the applicants’ claims that their lives may be threatened if they get pregnant in the future due to the Polish law protecting unborn children, citing the existing right to abortion in Polish law in cases where the mother’s life is considered at risk.
The legal challenge, backed by many pro-abortion lobby groups, was aimed at taking down a 2020 ruling by a Polish constitutional court that made eugenic abortion
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