Giulia Botta – University of Milan
1. Introduction
The Grimmark v. Sweden and Steen v. Sweden cases have been recently litigated1 before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which issued a landmark decision on a controversial question interrelating ethics and the right to health: the opposition between abortion rights and conscientious objection for healthcare practitioners. The claims have been lodged by two midwives arguing for their freedom of conscience in refusing to perform abortion, alleging violations of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) obligations by Sweden, party to the Convention since 1953.
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