Professor Eva Pajkrt:

No. I have a daughter who lives in Texas and there are always people protesting outside the abortion clinic. I have not seen a protest in front of an abortion clinic for ages and I live very close to one. As Professor Gevers stated, abortion is embedded in the criminal law but women are not criminalised, which may be contradictory. Let us say the Deputy and I were to meet at a party where we discussed the fact that we were at this meeting. I could easily say - if it was the case - that I had an abortion. It is not something that someone would be judged on. It is like people saying they had a miscarriage.