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Black Friday for women's rights in Slovakia, where Parliament is planning to pass strong discounts to the abortion law today, forcing those who choose to terminate the pregnancy to undergo an ultrasound to see the fetus and hear their heartbeat.

The proposal, described as "perverse" by civil rights organizations, is signed by three deputies of the conservative Slovak National Party. The intention, argue its promoters, is "to ensure that the woman is informed of the status of her pregnancy" before proceeding to the intervention.

The amendments to the law, which also include penalties to the advertising of abortion clinics or dissemination of abortion, have no precedents or parallels in Europe, although with the United States, where some of the states impose similar obligations on women with the intention of deter her. Or penalize her.

Last week, an open letter signed by more than thirty organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, requested the withdrawal of that bill because it was considered "regressive." They affirmed that there is no medical reason to advise women to see and hear the beats of the fetus before abortion and referred to the opinions of the European Court of Human Rights.

"Legislative changes on the table seek to limit the reproductive rights of women in Slovakia," said Mónica Costa Riba of Amnesty International.

It is estimated that in Slovakia, a country with 5.4 million inhabitants, an average of 7,500 voluntary abortions are performed annually , a figure that could be reduced by 80% if the law, as expected, finds the majority support of the Chamber . The one of the Episcopal Conference already has it. Nearly 50,000 people managed to gather the Church last September in the center of Bratislava when the Slovak National Party announced that it would introduce amendments to the abortion law.

Slovakia allows unrestricted abortion until the twelfth week of gestation and up to the 24th week for medical reasons.

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