Europe rights courts faults Ireland on abortion ban

STRASBOURG, France Dec 16 (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights ruled against Ireland on Thursday for preventing a Lithuanian cancer-sufferer from having an abortion.

The rights court, in a final ruling, found that Ireland had not respected the privacy and family rights of the Lithuanian woman, who was living in Ireland and whose cancer was in a state of remission at the time.

The court, based in the eastern French city of Strasbourg, ordered Ireland to pay 15,000 euros in damages. Ireland limits the right to abortion to cases such as danger of death for the mother. (Reporting by Gilbert Reilhac; writing by Brian Love; editing by Mark Heinrich)