On Saturday 26 May, Iratxe García Pérez (S&D, Spain) a welcomed the landslide victory in favour of abortion in a referendum in Ireland.
"The Irish people have shown compassion with women in crisis in a historic vote to repeal an anti-abortion law that left countless women devastated and some even dead," said the group’s spokesperson for gender equality issues.
On Friday, 66.4% of Irish voters in the referendum called for a scraping of a constitutional measure restricting abortion to cases where a pregnant woman was in real and substantial danger.
The presidents of the European Commission, European Parliament and European Council did not comment on the question over the weekend, but Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar said ‘a quiet revolution has taken place’ in his country.
Abortion is still illegal under any circumstances in Malta. It is only allowed in the event of rape, incest and serious foetal malformation in Poland and Cyprus. (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)