TY - JOUR
AU - Goffin, Tom
AB - These summaries are based on the provisional text of the judgements of the European Court of Human Rights. These judgments are still subject to editorial revision before their reproduction in Reports of Judgments and Decisions. For the full provisional text, see: http://www.echr.coe.intECHR 2023/7 Case of Mortier v. Belgium, 4 October 2022, no. 78017/17 (Third Section)See elsewhere in this issue (pp. 481–489).ECHR 2023/8 Case of Y.P. v. Russia, 20 September 2022, no. 43399/13 (Third Section)The FactsOn 1 August 2008 the applicant, who was then in the thirtieth or thirty-first week of pregnancy, was admitted to a municipal maternity hospital showing symptoms of rhesus incompatibility and excess amniotic fluid (polyhydramnios). She signed a consent form for a Caesarean section without sterilisation.During surgery the doctors also identified a rupture of the uterus, without bleeding. Given the applicant’s age, 28 years, the doctors decided to suture the rupture and keep the uterus. However, given earlier surgical interventions on the uterus, the Caesarean section and the hysterography (repair of the uterus), the doctors decided that there was a real risk that the uterus would rupture in a future pregnancy, which could endanger the applicant’s life, and that therefore she should be sterilised.According to the 
TI - European Court of Human Rights
JO - European Journal of Health Law
DO - 10.1163/15718093-bja10107
DA - 2023-06-19
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/european-court-of-human-rights-ocr90ca218
SP - 490
EP - 505
VL - 30
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -