The overturning of Roe v Wade in the US will embolden fringe anti-abortion groups across Europe, activists and academics warned last week following a major equalities conference in Spain.
One told openDemocracy: “Now they will be able to crawl out of marginality and point to a major democracy having moved in their direction.”
Neil Datta, secretary of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, was speaking to openDemocracy after the Seville conference ‘De-Democratisation, Gender+ and the Politics of Exclusion in Europe’.
