Published: 24.04.2013
On the 23rd of April 2013, a written question entitled “Does the European Convention on Human Rights set out a right to abortion?” (No. 633, Doc. 13181) was addressed to the Committee of Ministers (CM) by the President of the EPP group, Mr Luca VOLONTÈ.
Mr Volontè asked the Committee of Ministers:
- Can the Committee of Ministers confirm that the Council of Europe is not committed to a policy of promoting access to abortion?
- Can the Committee of Ministers, to the extent that it comprises representatives of the States Parties to the European Convention of Human Rights and the European Social Charter, confirm that it was never the intention of the authors of these instruments to establish a convention-based right to abortion?
• Amendments to the directive on the rights of victims of crime are currently under consideration in the European Parliament.
The candidate supported last Sunday by all the Right for the second round of the Polish presidential election had promised that he would veto any law that liberalizes abortion. He won with 50.89% of the votes against the left-liberal candidate who had promised to ratify any law liberalizing abortion.
During Holy Week, when we remembered the martyrdom of Jesus, many Poles heard about the innocent death of 9-month-old Felek (such an altered name was given to him by Gazeta Wyborcza journalists). Potassium chloride – a substance used to carry out death sentences – was injected into the heart of the boy who was due to be born any day.
• Gazeta Wyborcza published an article titled "Ordo Iuris Wants the Constitutional Court to Delete the Premise of Endangering a Woman’s Health. Prof.
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