Home birth. Legislative ban on medical assistance at planned home birth. No violation of private life
JUDGMENT Kosaitė – Čypienė and others v. Lithuania 04-06-2019 (no. 69489/12) see here SUMMARY Home births. The applicants, four women, had unsuccessfully requested that the Ministry of Health amend the legislation that prohibited medical professionals from assisting in home births. The Court found that Lithuania had struck a fair balance between the interests involved: namely, […]