Attempts have been made to protect the right to life of the unborn and challenge abortion laws on the basis of the guarantee of the right to life. The Commission has avoided ruling or taking a view on a number of occasions on the issue of whether an unborn child is a person for the purpose of the protection.<\/p>\n
The Commission has noted that there is a divergence of thinking on the point of commencement of life. It has been pointed out that the right to life is intimately related to the right to life of a mother. \u00a0It has been noted that if the right to life of the unborn child was equal to that of the mother, then it would have the consequence that an abortion might be regarded as prohibited if there was a serious risk to the life of the unborn.<\/p>\n
In the case of A, B and C v Ireland, the court found that the uncertainty in the Irish laws on the availability of abortion following the X case was itself a breach of rights under multiple Articles of the Convention. The absence of certainty was the critical factor. If a state permits abortion, it must implement a scheme that is accessible and effective and that persons can easily understand.<\/p>\n\n
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ECHR Guarantee The European Convention on Human Rights Article 2 provides that everyone’s right to life shall be protected by law. No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which the penalty is provided by law. However, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20962,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241\/revisions\/20962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}