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  • The European Parliament passed a resolution on Wednesday declaring women's reproductive rights to be human rights, in a vote that landed as EU culture wars rocked a leaders' summit in Brussels. "Today the European Parliament has finally stood on the side of women and showed governments that are undermining women's rights that we no longer accept this," said a statement from the centre-left S&D group that sponsored the non-binding bill. The resolution, which passed with 378 votes in favour, 255 against and 42 abstentions, urged the EU's 27 member states to guarantee women's access to safe and legal abortion. MEPs said that too many member states maintained highly restrictive laws prohibiting abortion except in strictly defined circumstances. This was "forcing women to seek clandestine abortions or carry their pregnancy to term against their will, which is a violation of their human rights", a statement said. The resolution also said value-added tax on women's menstrual products should be abolished and that all barriers to sexual and reproductive health services should be lifted. "This vote marks a new era in the European Union and the first real resistance to a regressive agenda that has trampled on women's rights in Europe for years," said Croatian MEP Predrag Matic, who sponsored the resolution. Ahead of the vote, the Catholic Church's EU Bishops' Conference criticised the resolution for holding a "one-sided perspective throughout, particularly on the issue of abortion". "We see the unborn child as an independent life created in God's image and owing its existence to His will. The unborn child has a human right to life," a conference position paper said. An EU parliament resolution is not binding, but serves to apply pressure on EU member states or the European Commission to act more boldly on issues. The vote came as a row over a law targeting LGBT people in Hungary caused a ruckus at an EU summit, with 17 countries calling on Prime Minister Viktor Orban to scrap the legislation. Culture wars over gender and sexuality have increased of late in EU politics, often pitting western countries against the more socially conservative nations of eastern Europe. arp/del/tgb
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  • MEPs vote in favour of abortion right guarantee
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