The ‘My voice, My choice’ resolution is adopted by a majority of the EU parliament. A Christian MEP says “it is painful to see that the majority of the European Parliament does not recognise that unborn life need protection”.
A vote in a recent plenary session of the Europen Parliament. / Photo: [link]European Parliament Flickr, CC-BY-4.0: © European Union 2025[/link].
Abortion laws remain the competence of each of the 27 countries of the European Union, but the EU as an institution will raise funds to make abortion as accessible as possible for all citizens.
This was decided by the European Parliament on 17 December when it approved by 358 votes to 202 (with 79 abstentions) the resolution ‘My Voice, My Choice’, a citizens’ initiative that reached Brussels after obtaining 1.1 million signatures in over seven countries.
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Specifically, a “financial mechanism to enable an EU member state to provide access to the safe termination of pregnancies in accordance with their domestic laws for anyone without access to a safe and legal abortion” will be created.
But the resolution goes further, requiring EU countries to liberalise access to abortion. In the words of Sweden’s Abir Al-Sahlani (from the Renew political group), “The EU has finally shown that sexual and reproductive healthcare is a basic human right”.
With this, the European Parliament is taking a new step in the wake of countries such as France, which enshrined the right to abortion in its Constitution.
Now, the European Commission (the government of the European Union) must propose a strategy for action, which must be presented by March 2026.
Among those who oppose funding abortion with European money is Bert-Jan Ruissen, a Dutch MEP from the European Christian Political Party.
“Unborn life deserves protection, it is painful to see that the majority of the European Parliament does not recognise this”, he said, expressing the position of his Christian movement, which has seven representatives in the European Parliament. “Despite this appeal from Parliament, the fact remains that the EU has no competence over abortion”.
Ruissen is one of the MEPs who supports “the dignity of human life in all its stages, from conception to natural death”. His group and others are committed to providing more support to pregnant mothers and vulnerable families.
The Christian Party also stresses that the European Union “must respect the principle of subsidiarity and the division of competences” as stipulated in the Treaties.
In the European Union, countries have abortion laws that range from the very liberal, in countries such as the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, France and Spain, to the more conservative, such as Poland, Portugal and Slovenia.
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