{"id":184022,"date":"2025-01-28T16:29:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/politics\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-eu-decoded-should-access-to-abortion-be-harmonised-within-eu\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T16:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:29:31","slug":"rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-eu-decoded-should-access-to-abortion-be-harmonised-within-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/politics\/rewrite-this-title-in-arabic-eu-decoded-should-access-to-abortion-be-harmonised-within-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"rewrite this title in Arabic EU DECODED: Should access to abortion be\u00a0harmonised within EU?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic<br \/>\n        For more than 60 years, Europe has led a global trend towards legal access to abortion. Fears of a reversal of this trend have led to the campaign \u201cMy Choice, My Voice\u201d, a citizens\u2019 initiative calling for action from the European Commission.<br \/>\n    ADVERTISEMENTThe Commission is obliged to formally respond to the initiative&#8217;s demand for a proposal to &#8220;ensure that all EU citizens, regardless of nationality or residence, have access to safe and legal abortion services&#8221;, as the\u00a0petition\u00a0exceeded the legal threshold of 1 million signatures collected\u00a0from more than\u00a0seven member states, in this case 15 member states were covered.In the EU, almost all countries have legalized abortion on request, on average up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. Poland and Malta are the only member states that maintain\u00a0more\u00a0restrictive\u00a0rules.In Poland, rape, incest and threat to the mother&#8217;s life are the\u00a0sole\u00a0legal justifications for the procedure, but in Malta only the latter.In some countries where abortion is legal on demand, doctors cite moral reasons for refusing. We asked Europeans whether abortion should be transferred from a national legislative competence to an EU competence.&#8221;There should be such fundamental basic rights, such basic guidelines set by the EU,&#8221; said one resident in Budapest. But another in Rome said: &#8220;It is impossible to be able to organize and homogenize health care and women&#8217;s care across Europe.&#8221;The European Commission\u00a0could pick up the petition and present a legislative proposal, but it\u00a0could\u00a0also simply acknowledge the petition in a communication, without taking it any further.&#8221;If the Commission ends up presenting a legislative proposal, it will go to the Council and be discussed among EU ministers. However, the Commission could decide to address abortion through the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive, which allows citizens to seek medical care services between countries within EU borders,&#8221;\u00a0says\u00a0Marta Iraola,\u00a0a reporter\u00a0covering the issue for Euronews.Should it be a fundamental right?In 2022, the US repealed a law legalising abortion at federal level 50 years ago, giving states the right to decide individually instead. The European Parliament has since passed a non-binding resolution to enshrine safe access to abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, so that it becomes binding in all EU member states.This would be welcomed by Lucide Barridez, from the Abortion Rights Platform.\u00a0\u201cAccess to abortion must be considered a fundamental right because it will have an impact on the exercise of women\u2019s fundamental rights, in particular the right to life, to health, to not suffer violence , discrimination, inhuman or degrading treatment,&#8221; she told EU Decoded.By contrast, Patricia Santos, from CEU San Pablo University said: &#8220;There is no such thing as a safe abortion or a healthy abortion. Abortion does not cure any disease. Therefore, I would like to open a debate on a measure that implies violence towards a son or daughter and that puts the mother at physical and psychological risk.&#8221;The scholar adds that \u201cit is a dangerous measure because it encourages abortion instead of proposing other types of social measures that are much more constructive and safer for the mother.\u201dWorld Health Organization guidelines state that women should not face extra barriers to requests for abortion when they respect legal timeframes, such as mandatory periods to reflect about the decision or cooling off periods for counselling with social and health workers.But in several EU countries the law imposes\u00a0such requirements\u00a0and\u00a0women may also face refusal from doctors\u00a0on grounds of conscience, leading some to risk backstreet abortions, or to travel to other regions or countries. By contrast, France was the first country in the world to enshrine abortion in the Constitution.This is an important\u00a0issue that will hit the desk of Commissioner for Equality Hadja Lahbib as she leads the Sexual and Reproductive Health portfolio at the European Commission.Watch the video here!ADVERTISEMENTJournalist: Isabel Marques da SilvaContent production: Pilar Montero L\u00f3pezVideo production: Zacharia VigneronGraphism: Loredana DumitruADVERTISEMENTEditorial coordination: Ana L\u00e1zaro Bosch and Jeremy Fleming-Jones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic For more than 60 years, Europe has led a global trend towards legal access to abortion. Fears of a reversal of this trend have led to the campaign \u201cMy Choice, My Voice\u201d, a citizens\u2019 initiative calling for action from the European Commission. 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