12. Abortion rights in Poland (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: Abortion rights in Poland (2020/2876(RSP))

Helena Dalli (Member of the Commission) made the statement.

The following spoke: Frances Fitzgerald, on behalf of the PPE Group, Iratxe García Pérez, on behalf of the S&D Group, Samira Rafaela, on behalf of the Renew Group, Joachim Kuhs, on behalf of the ID Group, Sylwia Spurek, on behalf of the S&D Group, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, on behalf of the ECR Group, Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos, non-attached Member, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Robert Biedroń and Karen Melchior.

IN THE CHAIR: Heidi HAUTALA
Vice-President

The following spoke: Terry Reintke, Beata Mazurek, Malin Björk, Sirpa Pietikäinen, Heléne Fritzon, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, Elżbieta Kruk, Andrzej Halicki, Evelyn Regner and Beata Kempa.

The following spoke: Helena Dalli.

Motion for a resolution to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 132(2):

—   Sirpa Pietikäinen, Andrzej Halicki and Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, on behalf of the PPE Group, on the rule of law in Poland in the context of the recent abortion ruling (2020/2876(RSP)) (B9-0371/2020);

—   Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Beata Mazurek, Elżbieta Rafalska, Anna Zalewska, Zbigniew Kuźmiuk, Witold Jan Waszczykowski, Jacek Saryusz Wolski, Kosma Złotowski, Joachim Stanisław Brudziński, Beata Kempa, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Dominik Tarczyński, Bogdan Rzońca, Anna Fotyga, Adam Bielan, Grzegorz Tobiszowski, Zdzisław Krasnodębski, Ryszard Czarnecki, Karol Karski, Izabela Helena Kloc and Beata Szydło, on behalf of the ECR Group, on abortion in Poland (2020/2876(RSP)) (B9-0372/2020);

—   Robert Biedroń, Heléne Fritzon, Maria Noichl, Evelyn Regner, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Pina Picierno, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Predrag Fred Matić, Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, Vera Tax and Monika Beňová, on behalf of the S&D Group, Samira Rafaela, Karen Melchior, Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Hilde Vautmans, Abir Al Sahlani, Sylvie Brunet, Radka Maxová, Susana Solís Pérez and Irène Tolleret, on behalf of the Renew Group, Sylwia Spurek, Terry Reintke, Alice Kuhnke, Saskia Bricmont, Kira Marie Peter Hansen, Monika Vana, Gwendoline Delbos Corfield and Ernest Urtasun, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Malin Björk and Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the de facto ban on the right to abortion in Poland (2020/2876(RSP)) (B9-0373/2020).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 26.11.2020, item 5 (amendments); minutes of 26.11.2020, item 14 (final vote).