Court of Human Rights violates the right to life

THE recent European Court of Human Rights ruling that Poland should compensate a mother who claimed she was discriminated against when she was refused an abortion is in itself discriminatory and flies in the face of the court’s remit to uphold human rights.

The right to life is the most basic and important human right. Without it all other rights are meaningless.

The right to life of the unborn child has been included among the fundamental human rights acknowledged by the Irish constitution, and procured abortion is thus seen as an abuse of that human right.