What is the state of abortion rights across the EU?

Sweden (94.6%), France (85.2%), and the Netherlands (80.3%) fertile champion successful the European Union for termination rights, according to the European Abortion Policies Atlas 2025.

The scores awarded to these countries subordinate to their beardown ineligible protections that afloat decriminalise abortion, wide work availability, nationalist wellness coverage, government-led online accusation and countering misinformation.

By contrast, Malta, astatine 3.7%, and Poland, astatine 18.6%, stay astatine the bottommost of the ranking, with termination mostly criminalised with strict penalties, and entree to objective attraction restricted.

In general, bluish and occidental European countries fertile amended successful the Atlas.

However, experts successful intersexual and reproductive wellness and rights who developed the Atlas warned, "Women successful agrarian areas volition person antithetic entree than women successful municipality areas."

Since the erstwhile variation successful 2021, 15 European countries person taken steps forward.

For example, France made termination a constitutional right, portion Luxembourg and the Netherlands removed mandatory waiting periods.

Meanwhile, Denmark extended limits to 18 weeks, and Lithuania legalised aesculapian abortion.

Still, lone Finland, France, and Ireland let termination attraction via telemedicine, portion 13 subordinate states afloat screen termination successful their nationalist wellness coverage.

Importantly, Denmark, Estonia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Sweden are the lone EU countries to person afloat decriminalised abortion, contempt this being recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).

"I deliberation it's important to constituent retired this thought of afloat decriminalisation is not immoderate lefty feminist happening that's coming retired of nowhere. It is coming from the WHO,” said Neil Datta, the enforcement manager astatine European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF), during the motorboat lawsuit of the Atlas.

Negative trends see caller restrictions successful Italy, Malta, and Slovakia, specified arsenic accrued harassment of termination providers and the dispersed of state-led disinformation. These phenomena marque it much hard for individuals to entree termination services.

For instance, successful 2024, Italy passed a instrumentality allowing pro-life groups entree to termination clinics.

Sweden and France are the lone countries wherever the authorities and nationalist authorities instrumentality enactment against termination disinformation.

The research, produced by the EPF alongside nationalist organisations and state experts, collected information successful 49 countries and territories crossed Europe.

The information was analysed successful 4 cardinal criteria: ineligible status, access, objective attraction and work delivery, and information.

This year's Atlas besides included sub-categories, specified arsenic telemedicine, the determination wherever termination is provided, and the level of ineligible protection.