€1.8m payment for mother who didn’t get abortion after incorrect test result

€1.8m payment for mother who didn't get abortion after incorrect test result

Tim Healy
Jun 20, 2018

TA mother who is a carrier of a rare genetic condition - and who claimed she was deprived of her right to travel for an abortion - has settled the first ever wrongful birth case here for an interim payment of €1.8m.

The woman's child was born with the same disabling condition after a test on the foetus for that condition came back with a normal result.

The case is the first wrongful birth case based upon the right to travel to succeed at the High Court.

Continued: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsireland/%E2%82%AC18m-payment-for-mother-who-didnt-get-abortion-after-incorrect-test-result/ar-AAyW181

20.06.2018

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Croatia refuses to ban abortion

Croatia refuses to ban abortion
02/03/2017

Croatia’s Constitutional Court has upheld a law allowing abortion, saying the legislation does not breach the country’s constitution.
However, the court urged parliament to pass new abortion legislation within two years.
The head of the Constitutional Court, Miroslav Separovic, told a news conference that current legislation allowing a woman to terminate up to the 10th week of pregnancy did not breach the constitution.

“It is not up to the Consitutional Court to rule when human life begins,” Separovic told reporters.

Continued at link: Euronews: http://www.euronews.com/2017/03/02/croatia-refuses-to-ban-abortion

02.03.2017