Access to Abortion Services for Women in the EU - Slovakia
This paper, commissioned by the European Parliament’s Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the FEMM Committee, provides basic information on access to abortion services in Slovakia. The legal status of abortions in the country is under permanent pressure despite the legally binding decision by the Constitutional Court back in 2007 which safeguarded women´s right to free choice. Eleven proposals to restrict abortion have been presented in the National Parliament, in the last two years. Medical abortion is not available in the country, and together with conscientious objection applied in health services and current COVID-19 pandemics access to abortion services is further limited.
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Olga Pietruchova, independent gender equality expert, Slovakia.
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- abortion
- conscience clause
- contraception
- economic geography
- EMPLOYMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS
- Europe
- family
- freedom of self-determination
- GEOGRAPHY
- health
- health service
- labour law and labour relations
- LAW
- political geography
- position of women
- reproductive health
- right to health
- rights and freedoms
- Slovakia
- social affairs
- SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- women's rights