Judgment, 20 March 1986.
The Court in this decision authorized an abortion to be performed on a women who was seventeen weeks' pregnant. The woman was unable to express her will with respect to the abortion because she was suffering from chronic schizophrenia and autism. The Court made its ruling under Article 13 of Law No. 184 of 22 May 1978, which allows a Court to authorize an abortion in such circumstances and requires a court to base its decision on the findings of a physician's report. Here, the physician's report stated that the woman's precarious mental equilibrium could be threatened if the pregnancy were continued.
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