In contrast to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has not yet found that a prohibition of abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality violates the prohibition of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment under Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. We argue that the ECtHR is on the verge of aligning itself with the Committee because, first, recent ECtHR jurisprudence is broadening its interpretation of rights within the abortion context; second, the ECtHR frequently uses international law as an interpretative tool; and, third, moving in the direction of the Committee would not be as controversial as it may have been in the past. More broadly, we view the proliferation of international and regional human rights' treaty regimes as a positive aspect of international human rights law and demonstrate how a body established to adjudicate on human rights disputes can, with some ingenuity, broaden its approach on sensitive topics by engaging with views of other human rights courts and treaty monitoring bodies.

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在致命胎儿异常情况下获得堕胎：欧洲人权法院的新方向？

与联合国人权委员会不同，欧洲人权法院 (ECtHR) 尚未认定，在致命胎儿畸形的情况下禁止堕胎违反了《欧洲人权法》第 3 条禁止酷刑或不人道或有辱人格的待遇的规定。人权公约。我们认为 ECtHR 即将与委员会保持一致，因为首先，最近的 ECtHR 判例正在扩大其在堕胎背景下对权利的解释；第二，欧洲人权法院经常使用国际法作为解释工具；第三，朝着委员会的方向前进不会像过去那样有争议。更广泛地说，我们认为国际和区域人权的扩散”