Ireland Fined for Abortion Restrictions by Human Rights Court
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Ireland violated a woman’s right to privacy by restricting abortions to cases where a doctor certified the mother’s life was put at risk by the pregnancy, the European Court of Human Rights ruled today.
Ireland was ordered by the Strasbourg, France-based court to pay a woman who went to the U.K. to abort a pregnancy she feared would kill her 15,000 euros ($20,000), for violating her rights under the European human rights convention.