{"id":25628,"date":"2026-02-26T18:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/25628\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T18:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:04:19","slug":"brussels-says-eu-cash-can-pay-for-abortions-but-still-up-to-national-capitals-euobserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/25628\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels says EU cash can pay for abortions, but still up to national capitals \u2013 EUobserver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU Commission\u00a0backed on Thursday (26 February) the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myvoice-mychoice.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018My Voice, My Choice\u2019 campaign<\/a> by guaranteeing that member states can use EU funds\u00a0to finance safe abortions \u2014 but it fell short of ensuring access across the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, which has gathered the support of more than 1.2m Europeans, seeks to guarantee access to safe abortion for every woman in Europe.\u00a0It\u00a0has also been backed by the European Parliament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/speech_26_492\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU executive<\/a> had concluded that \u201cit\u00a0is\u00a0possible to use EU funds to support member states\u2019 efforts for better access to safe and legal abortion care and thereby reduce the number of unsafe abortions,\u201d commission vice president Roxana\u00a0Minzatu\u00a0told reporters on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>On a\u00a0voluntary\u00a0basis, EU governments will be able to reprogramme or use their national European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) envelopes to improve access to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Although health policy lies in the hands of national governments, meaning that the\u00a0commission\u2019s\u00a0stance will have\u00a0no impact\u00a0in countries that do not want to ease access to abortion, it is a major political signal.<\/p>\n<p>The commission\u00a0does not plan to introduce a new law on the issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For her part, EU equality commissioner Hadja Lahbib said that the commission would ensure that EU money would be made available to national capitals to \u201cenhance access to affordable abortion, while member states ensure the funds reach women\u00a0seeking\u00a0safe and accessible abortion.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Activists had expressed concern earlier this week that the EU executive would not endorse their campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018My Voice, My Choice\u2019 says that more than 20 million women in the EU do not have access to safe abortions.<\/p>\n<p>Two countries in the European Union, Poland and Malta, still don\u2019t allow abortion for women except in very critical circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU Commission\u00a0backed on Thursday (26 February) the \u2018My Voice, My Choice\u2019 campaign by guaranteeing that member states&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[5754,211,210,16699,16697,16698],"class_list":{"0":"post-25628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-typedefinedterm","9":"tag-belgium","10":"tag-brussels","11":"tag-identifier4406","12":"tag-nameeu-politics","13":"tag-termcodeeu-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}