Ms Christina Zampas:

Poland is the only country in Europe which lists the grounds and it is ineffective as per the cases brought before the European Court of Human Rights. In a case where a woman's health was in danger, she was unable to access a lawful abortion. In a case where a 14 year old girl was raped, she was not able to access an abortion. In another case, a woman was unable to access proper prenatal diagnosis to determine the extent of a foetal impairment. In all of those cases, the European Court of Human Rights found violations of the right to privacy and in two of those cases it also found that the state's failure to ensure access to abortion violated the prohibition on cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. That is the only country in Europe which has the four grounds.