Ensuring Access to Safe Abortion across Europe

Statement by the European Safe Abortion Networking Group for International

Safe Abortion Day, 28 September 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the differential access to safe and legal abortion across Europe since March 2020. Lockdowns have confined women to their homes and borders have been closed, making it difficult for women living in countries with restrictive laws to cross a national border to find a legal abortion, while access to in-person, hospital-based abortion care has become considerably more difficult to find and arrange in many countries.

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