Abortion Rights in Slovakia - The 19th Attempt to Rollback & Central Societal Issues
Human Rights in Europe
Amnesty International EAAC
5.0 • 2 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the fourth and final episode of Abortion Rights in Europe. Today, we will be shedding light on the situation in Slovakia. The Slovakian government has frequently engaged in attempts to rollback abortion rights, which has been rejected each time only by a narrow majority in Parliament. This November, there was a 19th attempt to pass a draconian abortion bill which would have dangerous and discriminatory effects for all sexual and reproductive rights in Slovakia.
In our conversation with Daniela Muzikova, the Social Media Coordinator of Amnesty Slovakia, we will discuss the current legislative framework in Slovakia that addresses accesses to abortion, the recent attempts to rollback this framework and how these restrictions would ultimately change the lives of all women in Slovakia.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome everyone to our fourth and final episode in our series on abortion rights in Europe. |
| 0:13.2 | I'm Mira and I'm hosting you today from Brussels. Today's topic is abortion rights in Slovakia. |
| 0:19.7 | Many of you might be aware of the rollback on abortion in Poland, of which we spoke in our second episode, |
| 0:26.6 | but there are many more European countries which abortion rights situation is worth shedding a light on. |
| 0:33.3 | We saw this in our last episode on abortion rights in Germany. |
| 0:36.2 | So here we are with Daniela Musikova campaigns and media coordinator of Amnesty Slovakia. |
| 0:43.5 | Hello, Daniela. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm pleased to have you here today and would really like to ask you to give a short introduction |
| 0:50.1 | on your person to the listeners. |
| 0:52.4 | The floor is to you. Hello everybody. |
| 0:56.0 | Thank you very much for the invitation. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm really happy to be here, |
| 1:00.0 | even though not on the topic, but that's what we need to deal with. |
| 1:04.0 | So my name is Daniel Mujicova. |
| 1:06.0 | I work for MST International as a campaign coordinator |
| 1:10.0 | and I also deal with the communication. |
| 1:12.6 | My main focus is on LGBT bus rights, but I also deal a lot with women's rights. |
| 1:18.6 | So this is quite a field of my expertise. |
| 1:22.6 | Great. Sounds like we have the right person here. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm pleased to be able to speak to you and ask you a few questions on abortion in Slovakia today. |
| 1:33.6 | I think this will round up our episode series on abortion rights very well, shedding a light from the German perspective, |
| 1:40.9 | Polish perspective, the EU politics perspective to finally Slovakia. |
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