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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (2025/3007(RSP))

On the European citizens’ initiative entitled ‘My Voice, My Choice: For Safe and Accessible Abortion’

B-10-2025-0558

on behalf of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality · Rapporteur: Abir AlSahlani

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This resolution responds to the European citizens’ initiative ‘My Voice, My Choice: For Safe and Accessible Abortion’, which gathered 1.2 million signatures. Parliament welcomes the initiative and calls on the Commission to set up a voluntary opt-in mechanism with EU financial support for Member States to provide safe abortion care. It denounces backlash against women’s rights and anti-gender movements, calls for stronger European action, and reiterates calls to include abortion rights in the EU Charter and to reform abortion laws in Member States.

Key points

  1. Welcomes the ‘My Voice, My Choice’ ECI, which received 1.2 million signatures and was officially recognised by the Commission on 1 September 2025.
  2. Calls on the Commission to set up an opt-in mechanism open to Member States voluntarily, with EU financial support, to provide safe termination of pregnancies for anyone in the EU lacking access.
  3. Emphasises that the ECI aims to create a safer, more equal EU with the same level of healthcare for everyone, serving a broad group of patients across abortion-related services.
  4. Recalls that non-discrimination, mental and physical integrity, and guaranteed minimum healthcare standards are European values; stresses the EU’s role in supporting Member States’ SRHR efforts.
  5. Denounces backlash against women’s rights and gender equality, including roll-back of SRHR and attacks on defenders; condemns anti-gender movements and calls for stronger European action.
  6. Reiterates call to the Commission to use its health policy competence and support Member States in guaranteeing universal access to SRHR under the EU4Health Programme 2021-2027.
  7. Reiterates call to include the right to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and urges the Council to convene a Convention for Treaty revision to add SRHR and abortion rights.
  8. Recalls that lack of full abortion access causes physical harm and economic and mental stress for women and families.
  9. Expresses concern about legal and practical barriers to abortion in certain Member States; calls for dialogue, best practice exchange, and reform of abortion laws to meet international standards.
  10. Recalls EU competence in cross-border healthcare and notes EU resources have financed health services like cancer screenings; recalls Commission’s view that the proposal offers added value and does not affect Member States’ health policies.
  11. Calls on the Commission to include this proposal in both the current and next multiannual financial framework to improve public health and support access to sexual and reproductive healthcare.

Who is affected

  • Member States that voluntarily join the opt-in mechanism would receive EU financial support to provide abortion care.
  • Women and girls in the EU lacking access to safe and legal abortion would benefit from the proposed mechanism.
  • Anti-gender movements and those rolling back SRHR are condemned and targeted by calls for stronger European action.

Figures and deadlines

  • 1.2 million signatures
  • 1 September 2025

Legal basis: Article 9, Article 19, Article 24, first paragraph, and Article 168(5) and (7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; Articles 2, 3 and 11(4) of the Treaty on European Union