Polish woman goes to EU to challenge abortion law:

Alicja Tysiac’s eyesight worsened drastically after she had her third baby, and she fears she will go blind.

In staunchly Catholic Poland, abortion is illegal unless the health of the mother or unborn child is at risk.

Ms Tysiac is arguing that she ought to have been entitled to an abortion on therapeutic grounds.

When she became pregnant for a third time in February 2000, three eye specialists told her having a baby could put her eyesight at serious risk.

All, however, refused to authorise a termination of her pregnancy.

Two months later she visited a gynaecologist to ask for an abortion. He also refused.