For the ECHR nerds among you: today's ECtHR judgments on symphysiotomy completely ignored what I felt was one of our strongest arguments in the case, which relied on Soderman v Sweden (2013).
Soderman concerned a man who secretly filmed his teenage step-daughter in the shower. The Court found a violation of Art 8 because all efforts in Swedish law to establish criminal or civil liability for violation of her Art 8 rights failed. The State bore responsibility for this.
This seemed directly analagous to symphysiotomy: a violation of physical integrity by a private actor for which the State failed to provide any form of criminal or civil liability. Unfortunately the Court did not engage with this argument as it didn't properly interrogate consent
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