Constitutional unconstitutionality of criminal prohibition on abortion-related conduct

1. The Constitutional Court declared the contested provision of the Federal Act on the Protection of the Unborn Life (Ungeborenen-Schutzgesetz) unconstitutional, thereby granting relief to the complainant and removing the statutory basis for the challenged criminal sanction. 2. The dispute concerned a constitutional complaint against the criminalization of specific conduct related to the termination of pregnancy, where the complainant argued that the statutory definition of the prohibited act violated fundamental rights guarantees regarding personal liberty and informational freedom. 3. The decisive legal basis was the finding that the provision failed to meet the constitutional requirements for valid criminal legislation under the Austrian Federal Constitutional Law (B-VG), specifically regarding the principle of legality and the narrow limits of state intervention in personal autonomy, leading to the annulment of the specific statutory segment.