Professor Siobhán Mullally:

Yes. Let us look for example at how the European Court of Human Rights dealt with the RR v. Poland and PNS v. Poland cases, both of which were very tragic. The latter concerned a 14 year old victim of rape who was moved around from one place to another because she was given neither the correct information nor access to an abortion that would in fact have been lawful under domestic law. Her mother was also unable to get access to the services she wanted for her daughter. The ECHR was very strong in its condemnation of what had happened and found a violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which prohibits inhuman and degrading treatment, in how forces had come together to put in place so many barriers to this 14 year old girl getting access to a lawful abortion, and also with regard to the mother's right to support her daughter.