International human rights treaties have been interpreted as providing for access to abortion in situations of sexual crimes and fatal foetal 1 See for example, the case of John Fenton (1761) – Reported in Burnett’s A Treatise on the various branches of the Criminal law of Scotland, (1811), p. 6. 2 Sally Sheldon, ‘The Decriminalisation of Abortion: An Argument for Modernisation’ (2016) 36 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 334, p. 335.