Inscribing abortion in this community text requires the unanimity of member countries, according to current treaties. Now the subject divides the twenty-seven.
Le Monde with AFP
The European Parliament asked, Thursday, July 7, that the right to abortion be included in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (EU) after its questioning in the United States. “Everyone has the right to benefit from a safe and legal abortion”: by 324 votes (155 against, 38 abstentions), The MEPs, gathered in plenary session in Strasbourg, decided to ask the council , which represents the member states, to engrave this right in the charter.
adopted in 2000, this legally restrictive charter has the same value as the treaties. Including abortion, however, requires the unanimity of member countries, according to current EU treaties. Now this subject of society divides the twenty-seven. This is why the MEPs also asked the Council “that it meets to discuss an agreement to revise the treaties” in order to question the rule of unanimity.
This request is accompanied by a new firm condemnation by the European Parliament of the “decline in women’s rights and health and sexual and genesic rights in the United States and in certain member states”.
Emmanuel Macron had already wished to enroll abortion in European law 2>
The United States Supreme Court ended, on June 24, to the federal legal guarantee of the voluntary pregnancy interruption (abortion) throughout the country. It is now up to the fifty American states to decide on abortion.
“EU countries should guarantee access to safe, legal and free abortion services, prenatal and maternal care services, voluntary family planning, contraception, adapted services To young people, as well as to prevention, treatment and support in matters of [combat] HIV [human immunodeficiency virus, head of AIDS], without discrimination, “insisted European deputies in their resolution.
Before the thunderclap provoked by the decision of the American Supreme Court, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, who then took the rotating presidency of the EU council, had already wished to register the right to abortion In the EU’s fundamental rights charter.
His political party and the current French government also planned to include it in the French Constitution.