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A woman whose pregnancy was wrongly terminated wants the European Court to accept a foetus' right to life. I must admit to being a bit confused as to why this woman is bringing this case. Her pregnancy was terminated due to a lamentable and entirely avoidable mix-up in a French hospital. Yet the claim she's making in the European Courts would be more suited for a woman who's pregnancy was terminated because the surgeon cackled "I can kill unborn children and no court in the land will convict me!" Whilst success in her case won't bring her baby back, it probably wouldn't lead to any prosecutions in a similar case, as a doctor would argue he had to choose between the mother or the child.

The usual pro-life arguments are here and as nonsensical as ever, if you accept that foetuses have the same rights as a human being, then every man is a mass-murderer, all those thousands of millions of sperms that never impregnate eggs. Hopefully if this woman tries to use her own experience in this case it will rightly be considered irrelevent, but we'll have to wait and see.

Showing that it's a busy day for the blinkered, anti-choice advocates Life and spokeswoman Nuala Scarisbrick get a look in both in this story and another one, where it's argued that it should be easier to access abortion services.

"We want less abortion, not more. A truly civilised society would want none."

Ignoring the fact that 'a truly civilised society' shouldn't force women into the trauma of backstreet illegal abortions...