SLOVAKIA – Punitive abortion regulations tabled in parliament

SLOVAKIA – Punitive abortion regulations tabled in parliament

by International Campaign for Women's Right to Safe Abortion
Nov 19, 2019

The Slovak Parliament has just tabled a bill whose intention is to complicate access to abortion, in the wake of a widely reported anti-abortion march in the country in late September 2019, which attracted 50,000 marchers. Amnesty International reports: “Women and girls who need an abortion will now be forced to have an ultrasound scan, see images of the embryo or fetus from the scan, and listen to the heartbeat of the fetus. If passed, this bill risks exposing women and girls to degrading treatment and will make it more difficult for them to obtain legal services.” The bill would also prohibit “advertising” on abortion and impose a fine as high as € 66,400 on those who do so. These are punitive and coercive measures, imitating anti-abortion laws exported to Slovakia from several states in the USA.

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