Breakig news the pro abortion crowd just lost the supreme court caseim delighted
Not quite. The ruling stated " At the UK’s Supreme Court today, the judges said they had come to a majority view that the commission does not have the standing to bring the proceedings." Which means the people bringing the case were not directly involved/affected by the laws they were challenging.
Supreme Court judgement also leans towards ECHR standpoint :
"However they also came to a majority view that the law on abortion on Northern Ireland insofar as it relates to fatal foetal abnormality is
not compatible with Article 8 of the European Convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms.
By a smaller majority they also found the law not compatible with Article 8 in cases of rape and incest.
However, these decisions regarding the law not being compatible are not binding.
Lord Kerr said that they are “not binding but
worthy of close consideration by those in whose power it lies for the laws to be altered”.
The minority on this point – two judges – did not positively say that the present law is compatible with the ECHR but the form of the proceedings did not allow them to conclude it was not. "