This article reviews women’s reproductive rights – in particular access to abortion services – in light of recent jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. It highlights the Court’s reluctance to engage in a substantial examination of national laws by granting instead a broad margin of appreciation to individual Member States of the Council of Europe. Recent case law has articulated the right of abortion within certain rights expressly acknowledged by the European Convention on Human Rights, including – albeit not limited to – the right to privacy. Despite this, to date the European Court of Human Rights has yet not acknowledged abortion as a self-standing human right.