Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts: Supreme Courts (Eire) - Supreme Court

Date: 12/15/2009

Subject: The Supreme Court, also mentioning the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, has established that the norms provided by article 40.3.3. of the Constitution (recognition of the right to life of the so-called “unborn child”) cannot be applied to embryos which have been obtained thanks to in vitro fertilization and have not been implanted in a maternal uterus.

Parties: Mary Roche e Thomas Roche, Anthony Walsh, David Walsh and Sims Clinic Ltd.

Original language: Irish

Classification: Dignity - Art. 1 Human dignity - Art. 2 Right to life - Art. 3 Physical and mental integrity

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