After its US challenge, the European Parliament requested that the Charter of Fundamental rights of the EU include the right to abortion.
“Everyone has the rights to a safe, legal abortion”: By 324 votes (155 for, 38 abstentions), MEPs gathered in Strasbourg in plenary to vote to ask the Council which represents the Member States to include this right into the Charter of Fundamental Rights.
This legally binding charter was adopted in 2000 and has the same legal value as the treaties. According to the current EU treaties, abortion must be included in the fundamental rights. This subject of society is what divides the Twenty Seven. MEPs asked the Council to meet to discuss a convention for revising the treaties to challenge the rule that unanimity.
This is accompanied by a strong condemnation from the European Parliament about the “rollback in women’s rights, sexual and reproductive health rights and rights in the United States and certain Member States”.
On June 24, the United States Supreme Court ended federal legal guarantees of abortion in all 50 states. The 50 American states now have the final say on abortion.
MEPs insist on their resolution that “EU countries should provide access to safe and legal abortion services, prenatal care services, contraception, voluntary family planning and contraception, as well as HIV prevention treatment, support and support without discrimination.”
Helene Fritzon, Swedish Social Democrat MEP Helene Fritzon, said that Europe must lead by example and protect women.
Before the American Supreme Court’s decision, the French President Emmanuel Macron (who was taking over the rotating presidency of EU) had in January requested that the Charter of Fundamental Rights include the right of abortion. The European Union. It is also being enshrined in the French Constitution by his political party and the current French government.
“Strong women’s rights are an asset, an essential feature of democracies (…) Going Back is not an option,” Helena Dalli, European Commissioner for Equality, stated Monday during a debate in Strasbourg’s hemicycle.
“Let’s give women the assurance that no judge in Europe will be able. Let’s remind reactionaries what they really were: A relic from the past which has no future within the European Union.” Stephane Sejourne is the leader of the centrist and liberal deputies in the Renew group.
Polish Eurosceptic MP Patryk Jaki, on the other hand, criticized the European Parliament for regularly denying the independence of Polish judges. “You are going to condemn the United States for using independence of judges?” (…) He reproached his colleagues.
