The European Court of Human Rights today declined to review its judgment in the important case of Tysiąc v Poland, despite a request to do so by the Polish Government. In a significant judgment handed down in March, 2007 a Chamber of the Court held that the Polish State had not safeguarded Ms Tysiąc’s right to respect for her private life by failing to allow her to have access to a therapeutic termination of her pregnancy, although such a procedure was permitted by Polish law (...)