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BVerfGE 39,1 — Abortion I (German: BVerfGE 39,1 — Schwangerschaftsabbruch I) was a decision of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, addressing the issue of abortion in 1975, two years after the United States Supreme Court decision Roe v.
Abortion in Germany is illegal except to save the life of the mother but is nonpunishable during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy upon condition of mandatory counseling. The same goes later in pregnancy in cases that the pregnancy poses an important danger to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman.
From 1943, abortion was punishable by death if "the vitality of the German people continued to be impaired". For other cases of abortion, the prison sentence of up to 15 years was restored. However, it could only be imposed on the pregnant woman in particularly serious cases, which were not defined in the law; imprisonment remained possible ...
The European Court of Human Rights, summarising its abortion-related case law, in the Vo v France ruling in 2004, noted the "diversity of views on the point at which life begins, of legal cultures and of national standards of protection" and therefore, in a European context, the nation-state "has been left with considerable discretion in the ...
This is the most significant abortion-related case before the court since its conservative majority rolled back abortion rights protection in 2022 by overturning Roe v. Wade. But the issues in the ...
(Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court, which in 2022 ended its recognition of a constitutional right to abortion, on Wednesday agreed to hear a bid by President Joe Biden's administration to preserve ...
Wade, it now has two cases on its docket concerning abortion rights. In late December, the court granted review in a case about access to mifepristone, a drug used to induce abortions.
Elfes lost his specific case but the court cemented personal liberty in general. Justice Heck defined the limits of the court relative to the specialised court system. 1958 1 BvR 400/51 [29] Lüth Decision (Lüth-Urteil) The court of Hamburg prohibited Erich Lüth to call for a boycott of the film Immortal Beloved.