Brussels, Belgium, Jul 8, 2004 / 22:00 pm
The European Court of Human Rights meeting in Strasbourg, France, rejected an immigrant’s appeal requesting that human rights be granted to an unborn child.
The 17-judge panel said it could not rule on a case filed by a French woman in France who was forced to have an abortion after a doctor's mistake.
Thi-Nho Vo, a French national of Vietnamese background, had argued that France had violated the right to life of her unborn child.
Vo, 36, went to a hospital in Lyon on Nov. 21, 1991 for an exam when she was six months pregnant. On the same day, another woman of Vietnamese origin with the same last name, Thanh Van Vo, was due to have a contraceptive device removed.