Speaking a few hours after the European Commission decided that member states may use an existing EU social fund to provide free abortions for women who travel from EU countries that restrict access to safe abortion, Nika Kovac was jubilant.
The Commission was responding to a proposal from the My Voice, My Choice women’s rights campaign led by Kovac, a 33-year-old Slovenian anthropologist, sociologist and activist.
My Voice, My Choice had called for the creation of a fund from the EU budget to cover the costs of abortion procedures abroad for women from countries with near-total bans, such as Malta and Poland, or from countries where abortions are difficult to access, like Italy and Croatia. The campaign group had collected 1.1 million signatures for the initiative.
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