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DENMARK-ABORTION-TBs-CRPD

Country: Denmark

Issue: Abortion

Human rights mechanism: Treaty bodies

Treaty body: Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Concluding Observations on Report 2-3 (2024) (Link)

Protecting the integrity of the person (art. 17)

49. The Committee is concerned that legal and policy frameworks across the Kingdom of Denmark allow for sterilization, contraception and abortion in the case of women and girls with disabilities under guardianship without their personal consent, including sections 109 and 110 of the Health Act.

50. The Committee recommends that the State party amend legal and policy frameworks across the Kingdom of Denmark to prohibit sterilization, contraception and abortion in the case of women and girls with disabilities without their free and informed personal consent.

Concluding Observations on Report 1 (2014) (Link)

[no mention]

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