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European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My voice, my choice: for safe and accessible abortion’

TA-10-2025-0338 · P10_TA(2025)0338 · PE781.257

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Parliament welcomes the European Citizens’ Initiative ‘My Voice, My Choice’ and calls on the Commission to set up an opt-in mechanism with EU financial support for Member States to provide safe abortion care for those lacking access. It denounces backlash against women’s rights, reiterates calls to include abortion in the EU Charter, and urges Member States to reform abortion laws.

Key points

  1. Welcomes the ECI, which received 1.2 million signatures and was recognised by the Commission on 1 September 2025.
  2. Calls on the Commission to propose 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.
  4. Recalls that non-discrimination, mental and physical integrity, and guaranteed minimum healthcare standards are European values to be defended.
  5. Denounces backlash against women’s rights and anti-gender movements; calls for stronger European action to counter them and ensure universal access to SRHR.
  6. Reiterates call to Commission to use its health competence and support Member States under EU4Health Programme 2021-2027.
  7. Reiterates call to include the right to abortion in the EU Charter and urges the Council to convene a Convention for Treaty revision.
  8. Expresses concern about legal and practical barriers to abortion in some Member States; calls for dialogue and reform of abortion laws.
  9. Recalls EU competence in cross-border healthcare and notes EU resources have financed health services like cancer screenings.
  10. Recalls Commission’s view that the proposed financial support mechanism does not affect Member States’ health policy definition or organisation.
  11. Calls on the Commission to include the proposal in the current and next multiannual financial framework.

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.

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