The fight against gender stereotypes and parental rights: the case in France and other European countries
French parents who wish to pass on certain values to their children will clash in the coming months over the Republic’s education system, which the current Government wishes to reform, particularly in relation to the complementary nature of men and women, of human sexuality and of morality. The Taubira marriage law reform proposal should be [...]
Abortion in France gives Ireland the benefit of hindsight
Here is a post published on the Blog “Constitution Project” of the University College Cork (UCC), an inter-disciplinary research group looking at issues surrounding constitutional law, history, governance and politics. It may also be of interest for the readers of Turtle Bay. Abortion in France gives Ireland the benefit of hindsight Posted on March 22, 2013 We are delighted to [...]
Had the woman been a man… Comments on the ECHR ruling of X and others v. Austria on homosexual adoption and the abandonment of natural law.
Director of the ECLJ. The Court establishes that the impossibility of second-parent adoption in a same-sex relationship is discriminatory when such adoption is possible for unmarried heterosexual couples, although the exclusion of the biological parent. The reasoning may be thus summarised: If the woman had been a man, the adoption would have been possible, so it [...]
Abortion on demand violates European Human Rights Convention, expert says
Grégor Puppinck, a frequent author on this blog, has published a legal analysis on the website of the renowned European Journal of International Law, in which he concludes that laws allowing abortion on demand are in clear contradiction to the European Human Rights Convention, which in its Article 2 protects the Right to Life. The [...]
Adoption law: New rulings by the European Court of Human Rights and the German Federal Constitutional Cour
Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights and Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court (which often takes a leading role in human rights jurisprudence which is frequently cited also by Supreme and Consitutional courts in countries outside Europe) have published decisions regard two separate cases involving the adoption of children by same-sex couples. In the Germany, adoption [...]
“This Equality obsession is mad, bad and very dangerous”
The following article by Charles Moore appeared on 1st February on the website of the British newspaper “The Telegraph”. I re-publish it here because I find it a convincing and succinct analysis of the new super-ideology of our time. This Equality obsession is mad, bad and very dangerous The great doctrine of our time is [...]
Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights holds hearing on right of religious groups to make employment decisions based on religious affiliation
On wednesday, 30 January, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg held a hearing in a case concerning the right of churches to choose employees based on religious affiliation. A school had fired a teacher for demoninational religious studies (which is a regular subject at schools in many European countries, [...]
Christian employees in the UK: a second class category
For the European Court of Human Rights, it is proportionate to dismiss an employee because of his religious and conscientious objection to homosexuality. Grégor Puppinck, PhD, Director of the European Centre for Law and Justice. The ECLJ is deeply concerned by the today ruling of the majority of the Fourth Section of the European Court of [...]
How the Council of Europe is imposing abortion on Ireland and Poland
How can a country, that refused abortion three times by referendums, be pressured to legalize it in the name of a Convention which does not enshrine a right to abortion? In Europe,Irelandis a symbol of resistance against abortion. Nevertheless,Irelandis on the point of giving in to the concerted pressure of the Council of Europe [...]
A lousy procedure, a messy judgment: The European Human Rights Court’s newest attempt to fabricate a „Right to Abortion“
While for many years the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has simply failed to protect unborn children against being murdered (the lead case here is the ignominious Vo v. France decision of 2004, where the Court explicitly recognised that the embryo “belongs to the human race”, but at the same expressed doubts as to [...]
Latvia: A remarkable Pro-Life campaign followed by an official conference in the Parliament on the “right to life”
Between August and October 2012 the small Baltic country of Latvia has been the place of a creative and effective Pro-Life campaign aimed at reopening the public debate over abortion, in a country with a very high level of abortion and a law demographic rate. A specific aim of the campaign is also to introduce [...]
The frivolity of the European Human Rights Court
In a previous post, we have been informed about a case currently pending before the European Court of Human Rights in which the petitioners, a lesbian couple from Austria, claim to have been victims of “discrimination” because the Austrian legislation does not allow homosexual adoption. As the post explains in more detail, one of the [...]
Homosexual adoption before the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights
The case of X and others v. Austria Grégor Puppinck[1] Strasbourg, 12 September 2012. On 3rd October 2012, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights will hear a case of “homosexual adoption” concerning the impossibility for a woman to adopt the son of her female partner (X and others v. Austria, no. [...]
Prohibition of Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis: the ECHR Censors the Italian Law
On 28 August 2012, the second section of the European Court of Human Rights issued its first judgment concerning access to pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). This technique of screening and selection of embryos conceived in vitro aims at giving birth to a child who is not suffering from a genetic disease. It stems from this [...]
The right to marry for transgendered people before the European Court – Ten years after Christine Goodwin.
11 July 2012 Ten years after its famous ruling in the case of Christine Goodwin v UK, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is required again to rule on the compatibility of the impediments that prevent transgender people from marrying a person who is of the same biological sex with the European Convention on [...]
Euthanasia: The European Court Must Rule on Two New Cases
Dr Grégor Puppinck Director of the ECLJ In the coming months, the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights will once again have to rule on the issues of euthanasia and assisted suicide. Two cases, currently pending, will soon be decided by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR – Koch v. [...]
European Court of Human Rights: even sexual perverts enjoy freedom of assembly
Moldova is a country that in the past years has become a focus point of relentless LGBT campaigning. The reason is that this country is relatively small and very poor, and that it seeks to knit closer economic relations with the rest of Europe. This makes it easy for the LGBT lobby to use the [...]
European Court of Human Rights: a significant victory for the freedom of the Church
Strasbourg, 15 May 2012 – Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights published a judgment in the important case of Fernandez-Martínez c. Espagne (application no 56030/07), in which it concluded by six votes to one that “the choice of the bishop not to renew the contract of a teacher who is a married priest and activist [...]
Ireland’s Abortion Bill Defeated
The Irish Parliament rejected a bill by a 109-20 vote that was aimed at making abortion more widely available to its citizens. While the measure purports to only legalize abortion “for termination of pregnancy where a real and substantial risk to the life of the pregnant woman exists,” the bill’s sponsor, Clare Daly, of the [...]
Poll: Human Rights Laws a License for Criminals
The Daily Mail reports on a new poll finding an astonishing 72% of Britons agree with the statement “human rights have become a charter for criminals and the undeserving.” It takes a heap of bad publicity to get this kind of strong public rejection. In this case, it is well-deserved. Britons have seen their country [...]