While abortion has always been a contested issue, we have recently witnessed a renewed activism aiming to erode women’s human right to right to control their body. The ongoing concerted action to undermine abortion laws needs to be analysed and countered decisively. Including the right to abortion in the EU Charter on Fundamental rights could be an important step.

In a few short years, Polish women have gone from an already very repressive abortion regime to a de facto ban, with several women paying the ultimate price by losing their lives. American women woke up in late June of this year to discover that their Supreme Court had taken away what had been a constitutionally guaranteed right to abortion since 1973. While just a few weeks ago, in Hungary, the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán adopted a series of medically unsound measures aimed at humiliating and intimidating women into abandoning recourse to abortion.

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