The right and abortive attempts of KrF come up against a strong resistance

"We hope that the women's movement will go to the streets and show that it will be impossible for the government and the KrF to implement this initiative," said Audun Lysbakken, NTB SV Manager.

– The proposal to amend the law on abortion as a right-wing scheme involves a lone attack on women's right to decide their own bodies. Once again, Erna Solberg shows that she does not understand the rage that will trigger in Norway, he said.

The women's groups Ottar, Women's Front and Feminist Initiative all announced on Nov. 17 a new demonstration in front of the Storting to protest attempts to toughen the law on abortion.

– It is necessary to underline the situation of the woman

Solberg has been criticized for the fact that she is willing to negotiate changes to the abortion law that occurred while KrF was in the middle of the debate, that it was all over again. enter into his bourgeois government or choose the left side.

In particular, Article 2c of the Abortion Act, which members of the KrF hope to have amended through government negotiations. Opponents call it the "sorting paragraph" or the "Downs paragraph".

The highest proposal is to replace this section, which allows abortion after the 12th week of critical illness, with a sentence stating that abortion can be administered when the child is not not viable.

This confirms Health Minister Bent Høie (H) at NRK.

"It must also mean that it reinforces the focus on the woman's situation," he says.

However, Jonas Gahr Støre, leader of the AP, said that women had to meet at a meeting to explain their situation. He may give a different assessment, he says, claiming that the right has now cast doubt on the practice of abortion in Norway.

"This creates uncertainty for all women who will have to make this tough decision in the coming weeks," he told NRK.

Raja will not limit

Resistance to the modification of the paragraph is also great in the government parties.

"The abortion law should not be changed in order to restrict the woman's right to decide her own body," says Venstres Abid Raja in Dagbladet.

Frps Health spokesman Åshild Bruun-Gundersen is also clear:

"The removal of the right to terminate a pregnancy if the fetus has a serious illness and the risk of major disability will be dramatic.I think it is absolutely essential that families be able to make these assessments themselves. , she says.

– creates uncertainty

Several experts are also very critical of the proposal.

"The deletion of paragraph 2c will likely lead to considerable uncertainty and turmoil about the current legal framework governing abortion after fetal violence," says Berge Solberg, professor of medical ethics at NTNU.

He says that it would be almost impossible to distinguish Down syndrome from, say, the spinal cord or some of the many other ailments that a fetus can have and which today offer the opportunity to 39, an abortion.

A formulation that allows abortion if the child is not viable will also result in radical changes and will violate established practices since the early 1980s, he said.

Several legal experts believe the amendments are correct. Good proposals will force women to "marry" against abortion and abortion demands may be treated differently.

– An investigation was carried out which revealed the great national inequalities before the current law on abortion. Professor Hans Fredrik Marthinussen from the University of Bergen Law School said: "It's a little direction to take.