International Safe Abortion Day (27 September 2025)

28 September is International Safe Abortion Day. To mark it, France reaffirms its commitment to women’s access to voluntary termination of pregnancy. It must be possible to exercise this basic right under satisfactory conditions of safety, respect and dignity.

France was the first country to enshrine in its constitution the freedom to have a voluntary pregnancy termination, in March 2024.

It is taking action to guarantee access to sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide. In 2021, it supported the launch of the UNFPA Supplies programme to support the distribution of medical and contraceptive material to vulnerable people in 54 countries. It protects the maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health of more than 40 million women and girls in West and Central Africa, through the Organization for Dialogue on Safe Abortion and the Muskoka Fund.

France calls for increased efforts to guarantee access to safe abortion, a public-health and gender-equality challenge.