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EU equality chief Lahbib warns of ‘pushback against women's rights’

Warning about a potential ‘pushback against women's rights’, the EU equality commissioner Hadja Lahbib has backed the inclusion of abortion rights in the EU charter of fundamental rights.

“We have to ensure that there is equal treatment, and we have to ensure that women do not have to take a plane or a train to have an abortion,” she said on Thursday (12 Decem...

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