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The European Court of Human Rights awarded €16,495 to a Polish woman forced to seek abortion in the Netherlands due to Poland's near-total abortion ban.
- Earlier this year, the European Court of Human Rights ordered Poland to pay damages after the woman, born in 1981, was forced to travel to a private clinic in the Netherlands following a legal amendment.
- Poland's Constitutional Court found the 1993 Polish law allowing abortion for foetal defects unconstitutional in October 2020, creating a near-total ban that permits abortion only for rape, incest, or to save the mother's life.
- The Strasbourg-based ECHR ruled the delays and legal uncertainty amounted to interference, citing the `situation of prolonged uncertainty` and a similar January 28, 2021 case.
- The court awarded monetary damages, ordering Poland to pay 1,495 euros for pecuniary damage and 15,000 euros in other damages, while Natalia Broniarczyk called it a `fair decision` and President Karol Nawrocki vowed vetoes.
- Every day, seven women travel abroad for an abortion, while official numbers show just under 900 abortions were performed in hospitals last year in Poland.
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On Thursday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Poland's government infringed the European Convention on Human Rights on access to abortion. A woman from Krakow, whose fetus had serious malformations, was sued at the time of the decision of the Polish court in the 15th week of pregnancy. Because she was refused treatment in Poland, the pregnant woman travelled to the Netherlands and had her abortion carried out there in a priva…
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has condemned Poland for violating the rights of a...
European court rules Poland violated rights of woman who traveled abroad for abortion
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