Access to Abortion in cases of Fatal Fetal Abnormality: A New Direction for the European Court of Human Rights?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14220%2F19%3A00111313" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14220/19:00111313 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://is.muni.cz/publication/1579720/ngz020.pdf" target="_blank" >https://is.muni.cz/publication/1579720/ngz020.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngz020" target="_blank" >10.1093/hrlr/ngz020</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Access to Abortion in cases of Fatal Fetal Abnormality: A New Direction for the European Court of Human Rights?

Original language description

In contrast to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has not yet found that a prohibition of abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality violates the prohibition of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. We argue that the ECtHR is on the verge of aligning itself with the Committee because, first, recent ECtHR jurisprudence is broadening its interpretation of rights within the abortion context; second, the ECtHR frequently uses international law as an interpretative tool; and, third, moving in the direction of the Committee would not be as controversial as it may have been in the past. More broadly, we view the proliferation of international and regional human rights' treaty regimes as a positive aspect of international human rights law and demonstrate how a body established to adjudicate on human rights disputes can, with some ingenuity, broaden its approach on sensitive topics by engaging with views of other human rights courts and treaty monitoring bodies.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Human Rights Law Review

ISSN

1461-7781

e-ISSN

1744-1021

Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

24

Pages from-to

561-584

UT code for WoS article

000506806800007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85078724369