The French Parliament approved a bill of law instituting a new criminal offense: obstruction to abortion, a frontal attack on freedom of expression in the name of a free choice for women. A new bill voted this week in France states that providing “false” information on abortion would be punishable by up to two years…
Un hermoso vídeo llamado «querida futura mamá» ha sido prohibido por el French Broadcasting Council y por el French State Council, porque incluye a niños sonrientes con síndrome de Down. El galardonado video, producido en 2014, fue hecho para alentar y aliviar los temores de las madres embarazadas que han recibido un diagnóstico de síndrome…
On Friday 4th. November, by a vote of 267 to 140, the Polish lower House passed the «Pro Life» bill offering help for women with difficult pregnancies. The program is supposed to kick in next year. The bill was passed in an unusually speedy parliamentary procedure. It provides a one-time financial aid payment of PLN…
En los últimos cinco años, ha descendido el número de abortos en el país gracias a campañas pro-vida, al apoyo estatal a las familias y a la introducción de valores religiosos y éticos en la educación. Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX y bajo el régimen comunista, el aborto se extendió en Hungría hasta alcanzar…
Between 2010 and 2015, the number of abortions in Hungary has fallen by 23 per cent; in nominal terms, over 9000 less pregnancies were terminated, and the decrease continued further in the first quarter of the running year by 4 per cent, according to the Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of Human Capacities. In…
Una mujer cuenta su estremecedor testimonio para llegar a otras mujeres que como ella, se enfrentan no sólo la violencia de un agresor sexual, sino además la de quienes las presionan para que maten a sus hijos antes de nacer. Hellen Rhoda es otra mujer y madre que ha decidido compartir su historia y la de…
by Mr. Nils Muižnieks (1) The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr Nils Muižnieks, has published a Human Rights Comment on the need to protect women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights, highlighting that access to sexual and reproductive rights is a precondition for the realization of other human rights, including in the…
Following the rejection of the right-to-life bill by the Polish Parliament, the “Save Women” (pro-abortion) committee announced an upcoming European Citizens’ Initiative to ensure a guaranteed access to legal abortion, sexual education, and contraception at the EU level. Barbara Nowacka, leader of the “Save Women” committee explains: “In a few months, I am going to ask for your help to…
Following the rejection by the Polish Parliament of the pro-life bill, the chairman of the conservatives (the governing party PiS) Jaroslaw Kaczynski announced on October 12th that the party will work to reduce the number of abortions carried out for reason of illness or disability. “Nowadays there are around 1.000 legal abortions in Poland: most…
The ECLJ publishes a Report on the Polish Citizens’ legislative initiative towards a comprehensive protection of human life Strasbourg – Octobre 4th 2016. The citizens’ legislative initiative for the total abolition of abortion, delivered to the Polish Parliament on 5th July 2016, aims to ensure for all children, before as well as after birth, equal rights…