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1 WHO, Safe Abortion: Technical and Policy Guidance for Health Systems European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual & Reproductive Rights (EPF) Rue Montoyer 23 1000 Brussels Belgium 09 September 2020 Dear President Zuzana Čaputová, dear President of the Slovak Parliament Boris Kollár, As Members of Parliaments from across political parties, we wish to express our deep concern about recent attempts of the Slovakian Parliament to tighten the current abortion law. Abortion is a time-sensitive matter, women, therefore, need timely and safe access to information and services. The National Council document, number 154, by prolonging the waiting period, stands in the direct opposition with good medical practice, international human rights, and WHO recommendations.1 Additionally, it infringes upon the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner’s obligations for the Member States to ensure access to abortion care and specifies that any refusal of care on grounds of religion or belief by a medical professional may never be allowed to jeopardise women’s right to access sexual and reproductive health services2. The law would harm women’s equality, dignity, autonomy, and bodily integrity, restricting their access to information and their rights to private life and health. These are challenging and uncertain times for all of us in Europe where we as elected politicians must ask our electorate to make difficult and unprecedented sacrifices for the common good. In return, our electorate expects us as politicians to live up to our responsibilities to safeguard their rights and well-being. This includes recognising that sexual and reproductive health and rights, including access to abortion, constitute essential health services and that current governments have a responsibility to protect and thereby ensure women’s continued access to this essential health intervention. 1 WHO, Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems, https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/70914/;jsessionid=20462B98841638912FC1B01FBB3D5B4E? sequence=1 2 Council of Europe, Women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in Europe https://rm.coe.int/women-s-sexual-and-reproductive-health-and-rights-in-europe-issue-pape/168076dead We, therefore, urge the National Council ruling coalition to respect the fundamental rights of all Slovakians to make autonomous decisions about their own bodies and reproductive abilities, which are at the very core of their fundamental right to equality and privacy concerning intimate matters of physical and psychological integrity, and to refrain from adopting the bill number 154. Kind regards, Members of Parliaments Signatories: 1. Hon. Monika Beňová, MEP, Slovakia 2. Hon. Miroslav Číž, MEP, Slovakia 3. Hon. Robert Hajšel, MEP, Slovakia 4. Hon. Martin Hojsík, MEP, Slovakia 5. Hon. Wiezik Michal, MEP, Slovakia 6. Hon. Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, MEP, Slovakia 7. Hon. Pere Lopez Agras, MP, Andorra 8. Hon. Petra Bayr , MP, Austria 9. Hon. Evelyn Regner, MEP, Austria 10. Hon. Andreas Schieder, MEP, Austria 11. Hon. Günther Sidl, MEP, Austria 12. Hon. Monika Vana, MEP, Austria 13. Sen. Fourat Ben Chikh, Belgium 14. Hon. Olivier Bierin, MP, Belgium 15. Hon. Saskia Bricmont, MEP, Belgium 16. Hon. Cécile Thibaut, MEP, Belgium 17. Hon. Samuel Cogolati, MP, Belgium 18. Hon. Barbara Creemers, MP, Belgium 19. Hon. Séverine de Laveleye, MP, Belgium 20. Hon. Petra De Sutter, MEP, Belgium 21. Hon. Christophe Lacroix, MP, Belgium 22. Hon. Leroy Marie-Colline, MEP, Belgium 23. Hon. Isabelle Pauthier, MP, Belgium 24. Hon. Gilles Van den Burre, MP, Belgium 25. Hon. 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