Thu Jul 7, 2022 – 2:35 pm EDT
BRUSSELS (LifeSiteNews) – On Thursday, July 7, the E.U. parliament adopted a resolution in a 324-155 vote with 38 abstentions which includes a call for all member states to enshrine “safe and legal abortion” in the E.U. Charter of Fundamental Rights.
The resolution came as a direct response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs decision.
“The United States has clearly shown why we must use every tool available to safeguard abortion rights in the European Union,” said Stéphane Séjourné the president of the liberal Renew Europe group in the E.U. Parliament.
“This was not a majority decision of the American citizens, but the decision of a few, mostly male politicians who presume to want to determine the bodies of women. This should be a warning signal for us in Europe,” warned Austrian MEP Evelyn Regner of the Social Democrats in a statement.
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“It teaches us a lesson: Women’s and girls’ human rights can never be taken for granted, and we must always fight to defend them,” Swedish politician
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