European Court of Human Rights. ECHR 2013/9 Case of Costa and Pavan v. Italy, 28 August 2012, no. 54270/10 (Second Section).

摘要

The facts: The applicants are Italian nationals who were born in 1977 and 1975 respectively and live in Rome. When their daughter was born with cystic fibrosis in 2006, they found out that they were healthy carriers of the disease. When the first applicant became pregnant again in February 2010, the applicants had the foetus screened and it was found to have cystic fibrosis. She had the pregnancy terminated on medical grounds.