"The Tidö parties understand the concern about what such a potential change would entail for women's equality. Such a concern is that the proposal can contribute to a development where women are made invisible and reduced to their reproductive organs", the parties write in the article.
The proposal is motivated by the fact that those who have male as their legal gender can also become pregnant and need the opportunity for abortion. The requirement for sterilization for those who change their legal gender was removed in 2013.
Several parties have previously stated that they want to wait for the referral round. V and C have announced that they have no objections, and the Green Party that they welcome the proposal.
The Green Party's spokesperson for gender equality policy, Janine Alm Ericson (MP), says in a comment to TT that the party has no problem with including the word woman in the legislation.
"But, after changed legislation on legal gender and an end to the shameful forced sterilizations, there are also legal men who can become pregnant and that must also be reflected in the abortion legislation", she adds.
The investigator also proposes that it should become easier to have an abortion at home and a strengthened role for midwives. The Tidö representatives, Social Minister Camilla Waltersson Grönvall (M), Minister for Gender Equality Paulina Brandberg (L), and the SD group leader Linda Lindberg, write on Aftonbladet Debatt that they will return with how the other proposals are taken further.
