HROW would like to draw you attention to a Council of Europe Report, called "Access to safe and legal abortion in Europe", elaborated by the Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men of the Council of Europe Parliamentarian Assembly (PACE).
In this report, the PACE recall that "Abortion is legal in the vast majority of the Council of Europe member states. The Committee on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men considers that a ban on abortions does not result in fewer abortions, but mainly leads to clandestine abortions, which are more traumatic and more dangerous. By the same token, the Committee notes that in many of the states where abortion is legal, numerous conditions are imposed which restrict the effective access to safe abortion."
For these reasons, the PACE invited the member states of Council of Europe to:
- decriminalise abortion, if they have not already done so;
- guarantee women's effective exercise of their right to abortion and lift restrictions which hinder, de jure or de facto, access to safe abortion;
- adopt appropriate sexual and reproductive health strategies, including access of women and men to contraception at a reasonable cost and of a suitable nature for them as well as compulsory relationships and sex education for young people.
This is a 2008 Report (8 April 2008), nevertheless, the background situation in Europe, that is analysed here, it is still the current situation in most of the member states countries. Therefore, this report can be consider as an up-date report.
You will find this report in the following link:
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