In a landmark decision, the European Court of Human Rights today delivered a majority judgment in the case of Tysiac v Poland. The Court held, by six votes to one, that the Polish State had failed to safeguard Ms Tysiac’s right to the effective respect for her private life, given her inability to access a ‘therapeutic’ abortion, lawful in Poland. In a controversial area, the judgment is a call for objectivity, clarity and fairness in decision-making that should assist those whose rights have been affected by State regulation of reproductive choice. Ms Tysiac was represented in court by Polish lawyers, advised by INTERIGHTS (...)