What do the parties say on equality and diversity?

The AfD wants to counter any further spread of Islam. Its measures include banning foreign funding of mosques, banning minarets and the call to prayer, requirements for imams, and abolishing university chairs in Islamic theology.

The AfD does not want Islam to spread further in Germany. Other countries should not be allowed to pay for mosques in Germany. Minarets and the call to prayer should be banned. A minaret is the tower of a mosque. Imams should speak German well.

The AfD wants to ban the burqa and niqab in public, pointing to countries such as France and Austria. In public institutions, especially schools, the headscarf is also to be prohibited.

The AfD wants to ban the burqa and niqab in public. These are clothes that cover the face. In schools and public offices, the headscarf should be banned too. Other countries in Europe already have such rules.

The AfD wants to repeal laws that mandate gender quotas and rejects anti-discrimination laws in civil law. It bases this on equality before the law and on the freedom to choose one's own contracting partners.

The AfD wants to end laws with quotas for women and men. It also opposes laws against discrimination between private people. Everyone should decide for themselves who they make a contract with. The AfD says only the state must treat everyone equally.

The AfD wants to repeal the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act) entirely and holds that there are two biological sexes. Gender-transition treatment would be possible only from age 18, and puberty blockers for that purpose would be banned.

The AfD wants to scrap the Self-Determination Act. This law makes it easy to change one's legal gender entry. The AfD says there are only two sexes. Treatment to change gender should start only at 18. It wants to ban puberty blockers for this.

The AfD wants to cut off funding for gender studies, which it considers unscientific, and abolish equal opportunity officers. Hiring should depend only on professional qualification. The party sees a growing influence of "woke" ideology at universities and wants to end it.

The AfD wants to stop paying for gender studies. That is research on gender roles. The party says it is not real science. Equal opportunity officers should no longer exist. For jobs, only professional skill should count.

The BSW wants targeted support for East Germans, at least in the public service, academia and culture. It justifies this with lower wages in the east and the low share of East Germans in leadership positions.

The BSW wants special support for people from eastern Germany. This applies to government offices, science and culture. Wages in the east are often lower. Few East Germans hold top jobs.

The BSW wants to expand protection and support services for women affected by violence and create many more places in women's shelters and safe housing. The federal government should fund shelters permanently, and staying there should be free for women.

Many women experience violence. There are too few places in women's shelters. The BSW wants to create many more places. The federal government should pay for the shelters. Women should not have to pay to stay there.

The BSW wants abortion in the first twelve weeks to be generally exempt from punishment. In addition, public health insurers should pay for prescription contraceptives for women and girls. The reasoning is the right to decide about one's own body.

Women should decide about their own bodies. Abortion should not be a crime up to the 12th week. Prescription birth control should be free for women and girls. Health insurance should pay for it.

The BSW rejects the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act) because, in the platform's view, it undermines protections for women. Changing one's gender should only be possible with a medical report. In women's sports, biological sex should apply.

Today, people can change their legal gender themselves at a public office. The BSW is against this law. It wants a doctor to write a report first. The BSW says the law puts safe spaces for women at risk.

The CDU and the CSU say they support gender-fair language but reject what they see as an ideologically driven obligation to use gendered forms. Schools, universities, broadcasters and public administration should not use such gender language.

The CDU and the CSU do not want special gender wording in schools and public offices. This also applies to universities and broadcasters. The parties say forcing this wording shuts people out. Language should still be fair to women and men.

The CDU and the CSU want to present a package of measures against discrimination toward older people. In addition, networks against loneliness are to receive continued support, which the program justifies with the aging society.

The CDU and the CSU want to protect older people from unfair treatment. They plan several measures for this. Older people should also be able to use digital services well. The parties also want to do something about loneliness.

The CDU and the CSU reject that minors can change their gender entry and first name without an expert assessment under the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act). They demand independent psychological assessments and do not want to allow what they see as a careless change for adults either.

Today people can change their gender entry easily at a government office. The CDU and the CSU do not want this for children and teenagers. A psychologist should write a report first. The parties reject surgery before age 18. Rules should also get stricter for adults.

The FDP wants to fight discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people. The equality article of the Basic Law (the German constitution) would be extended to include sexual identity. Police would record hate crimes against these groups the same way everywhere.

The FDP wants to protect queer people better. Queer people are, for example, lesbian, gay and trans people. The constitution should name their protection clearly. Police should count and pursue hate crimes against them the same way everywhere.

The FDP wants more accessibility and an inclusive education system from daycare through vocational training. Special-needs schools would be kept at the same time. A permanent disability would only have to be proven once.

The FDP wants fewer barriers for people with disabilities. Children with and without disabilities should be able to learn together. Special-needs schools should still exist. A permanent disability only has to be proven once.

The FDP wants women's shelters to be adequately funded and free places to be visible online nationwide. Medical care is also to be better tailored to women, and women's rights strengthened worldwide.

The FDP wants more money for women's shelters. Women find protection from violence there. A website should show free places right away. Doctors should do more research on women's illnesses.

The FDP wants to improve care for women with unwanted pregnancies and make it possible for all women to have the cost of an abortion covered. The next Bundestag is to debate a reform of the criminal provisions without party discipline.

The FDP wants to give more help to women with an unwanted pregnancy. All women should be able to have the costs of an abortion covered. Doctors should learn the procedure in training. Parliament should decide freely on the criminal law.

The FDP wants to abolish tax classes 3 and 5 and make childcare costs and maintenance payments more deductible. More women are to start businesses, and couples are to split pension points to reduce old-age poverty among women.

The FDP wants to end tax classes 3 and 5. Parents should deduct more childcare costs from their taxes. More women should start companies. Couples should share pension points.

The Free Voters want no woman to be punished for ending her pregnancy. Mandatory pregnancy conflict counseling is to remain in place. At the same time, access to safe medical care is to be available everywhere and without discrimination.

No woman should be punished for an abortion. That is what the Free Voters want. Counseling before an abortion should stay mandatory. Women should find safe medical care everywhere. Paid advertising for abortions should stay banned.

The Free Voters want to raise the standing of occupations in which mostly women work and to narrow the gender pay gap. They also want more women in leadership roles and political office. The platform notes that women earn 18 percent less than men on average.

Women earn less than men on average. The Free Voters want to change this. Jobs done mostly by women should get more respect and better pay. More women should become bosses. More women should also take part in politics.

The Free Voters want to revise the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act) in the next legislative term. They accept the right to recognition of one's gender identity but say the law does not balance it properly with women's rights and child protection in every area.

The Self-Determination Act sets rules for changing a person's legal gender. The Free Voters want to change this law. They say the law pays too little attention to women's rights and child protection. The rights of trans people should still remain.

The Free Voters want to reform the Prostitution Act in order to combat forced prostitution and human trafficking. In the platform's view, the current law and weak oversight encourage these abuses.

Some people are forced into prostitution. The Free Voters want to stop this. To do so, they want to change the Prostitution Act. They say today's law and today's checks are not enough.

The Free Voters want to create a government coordination office that pools efforts against violence toward women and girls. Support services and awareness campaigns are to be expanded. The platform justifies this with a sharp rise in violence and with the Istanbul Convention.

Many women and girls suffer violence. The Free Voters want a new government office to fight this. The office collects data and brings agencies together. There should be more help and more information. Police and courts should get training on this.

The Free Voters want to rehabilitate people convicted under the former criminal provisions against homosexuality. Health care for trans people is to improve through more expertise at agencies and in medical training. The platform also affirms the diversity of family forms.

In the past, gay men were punished in Germany. The Free Voters want to recognize this injustice. Trans people should get better medical care. Doctors should learn more about this. Nobody should be treated unfairly in nursing homes either.

The Free Voters want transport, housing, schools, cultural venues and health care facilities to be usable without barriers for people with disabilities. A nationwide hotline would answer questions about inclusion quickly.

The Free Voters want fewer barriers for people with disabilities. Buses, trains and taxis should work for everyone. The same goes for doctors' offices, museums and theaters. A phone number should help with questions.

The Free Voters want to support companies that employ people with disabilities in regular jobs. Assistance services would be easier to apply for, those affected would have more say, and guardians would get more leeway.

More people with disabilities should get regular jobs. Companies should get help for this. Everyday assistance should be easier to apply for. People affected should have more say in decisions.

The Free Voters want to write protection of the recognized national minorities into the Basic Law, Germany's constitution. They also want to promote Jewish life and take action against antisemitism.

Germany has recognized minorities. They include Danes, Frisians, Sorbs, and Sinti and Roma. The Free Voters want to protect them in the constitution. The party also wants to support Jewish life.

The Greens want to replace Ehegattensplitting (joint income splitting for spouses) for newly married couples with individual taxation in which the basic allowance can be transferred to the partner. In the platform's view, today's rule keeps women out of paid work. Balancing family and work would also be made easier.

Married couples in Germany pay tax together today. The Greens want to change this for new marriages. Then each partner pays their own tax. Couples who are already married can keep the old rule.

The Greens want women to be able to enforce their right to equal pay in practice. Pay is to become more transparent and the rules easier to enforce in court. Employees should also have more say over their working hours.

Women often earn less than men. The Greens want to change that. Pay should be openly visible. Women should be able to sue for equal pay more easily. Workers should decide more about their own hours.

The Greens want to reform the Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (General Equal Treatment Act) and extend protection against discrimination, including by state bodies. Associations are to be allowed to sue, and counseling centers and the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency are to be strengthened.

A law protects people from unfair treatment. The Greens want to make this law stronger. It should cover more cases. People should have more time to complain. Associations should also be allowed to sue. The protection should also apply to government offices.

The Greens want to act against antisemitism regardless of who it comes from and to adequately fund the protection of Jewish communities. The platform points to the rise in antisemitic incidents after the Hamas attack of October 7, 2023.

Jewish people should live safely in Germany. The Greens want more money to protect Jewish communities. Authorities should pursue and record attacks on Jews. Schools and courses should teach about hatred of Jews. Older Jewish people should get more social security.

The Greens want a national strategy against anti-Muslim hostility and want to protect Muslim life in Germany. Antigypsyism is also to be fought, including through a state treaty with the Sinti and Roma, and national minorities are to receive lasting support.

Muslims often face rejection in Germany. The Greens want a plan against this. Sinti and Roma should also be better protected. The federal government should sign a treaty with them. Authorities should pursue and record attacks. Minorities should get money for their language and culture.

The Greens want to give people affected by domestic and gender-based violence, and their children, a legal right to protection and counseling. The federal government is to share the costs so that women's shelters, counseling centers, and safe housing are available everywhere free of charge.

Many women face violence at home. The Greens want to give them a right to protection. Their children should have this right too. There should be free women's shelters and counseling everywhere. The federal government should help pay for it. Offenders should not be allowed to come near victims.

The Greens want stricter inspections of prostitution venues and higher standards for operating licenses. The aim is to secure working conditions, self-determination and safety for those affected. Changes to the Prostituiertenschutzgesetz (Prostitute Protection Act) are to be discussed with an open outcome once its evaluation is available.

The Greens want stricter checks on brothels. The rules for a license should get tougher. Customs officers should get more powers to check. This should make work safer for prostitutes. There should also be more help for people who want to leave.

The Greens call for women's quotas on supervisory and executive boards of large companies and a parity law for Bundestag elections. Their reasoning is that women make up more than half the population but hold far less economic and political power.

The Greens want more women in top jobs. Large companies should have fixed quotas. A quota is a fixed share. The Bundestag should also have as many women as men. A new law should make this happen.

The Greens want to remove self-determined abortions from the criminal code. In the early phase of pregnancy, abortion would be lawful. The party regards control over one's own body as a fundamental right.

The Greens want to take abortion out of criminal law. Early in a pregnancy, abortion should be legal. Counseling should be voluntary. Health insurers should pay the costs. There should be enough clinics close to home.

The Greens want to add protection against discrimination based on sexual and gender identity to Article 3 of the Basic Law. The Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act) is to be kept and the action plan "Queer leben" made permanent. The party cites rising violence and discrimination against queer people.

The Greens want to protect queer people better. Queer people include lesbian, gay and trans people. This protection should be written into the constitution. The Self-Determination Act should stay. Health insurers should pay for treatments for trans people.

The Left wants to turn the Entgelttransparenzgesetz (Pay Transparency Act) into an equal pay law that enforces equal pay for work of equal value. Pay gaps affecting women and workers with a migration background are to disappear.

Women often earn less than men. People with a migration background often earn less too. The Left wants to change this with a law. Work of equal value should get equal pay. Unions should be allowed to sue on behalf of those affected.

The Left wants election law to require that half of all list positions and seats go to women. In addition, new laws would be checked for their effects on gender equality.

The Left wants more women in parliaments. Half of the places on party lists should go to women. Half of the seats should also go to women. This should be written into election law.

The Left wants to remove abortion from the criminal code and treat it as a regular medical service. Counseling would be voluntary, and health insurers would pay for contraception.

Abortion is in the criminal law today. The Left wants to delete this rule. Counseling should be voluntary. Health insurance should pay for all birth control.

The Left wants to fully implement the Istanbul Convention on violence against women and fund women's shelters permanently. In sexual offense law, the principle "only yes means yes" would apply.

The Left wants to protect women better from violence. Women's shelters should get secure funding. Protection and counseling should be free. For sex, the rule should be: only yes means yes.

The Left wants to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the equality article of the Basic Law. It also wants improvements to the Self-Determination Act, a reform of parentage law and guaranteed health care.

The Left wants to protect queer people better. The constitution should name this protection. Families with two mothers or two fathers should get equal rights. Health insurance should pay for needed treatment.

The Left wants to strengthen the rights of Germany's four recognized minorities and write them into the constitution. They should be able to use their languages with government offices and in court.

Germany has four recognized minorities. The Left wants to write their rights into the constitution. They should be allowed to speak their language at government offices. This should also apply in court.

The Left wants a federal law to strengthen the participation of people with a migration background. A quota would bring their share in public administration in line with their share of the population. Quotas for disadvantaged groups would also apply in the private sector, politics, culture and the media.

The Left wants a new law for more participation. More people with a migration background should work in public offices. A quota should make sure of that. A quota is a fixed share. There should also be quotas in companies, politics and the media.

The Left wants to expand legal protection against racism. This includes reforming the Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz (General Equal Treatment Act), banning racial profiling by police and adding a protection clause to the constitution. A separate federal ministry would be responsible for migration.

The Left wants more laws against racism. Police should not check people because of how they look. Checks without a reason should end. There should be a separate ministry for migration.

The Left wants full accessibility everywhere and would legally require private businesses to provide it too. Learning should be inclusive in all educational institutions. In the party's view, separate special structures for people with disabilities violate human dignity.

All places and services should be usable without barriers. That should also be a duty for private companies. Children with and without disabilities should learn together. Associations should be able to sue against discrimination.

The ÖDP wants a nationwide law guaranteeing equal treatment in all areas of life for people with mental illness or addiction disorders. Support services are to be expanded across the country and self-help groups funded by the state. The program sees those affected as disadvantaged when taking out insurance and applying for jobs.

The ÖDP wants to better protect people with mental illness. This also applies to people with an addiction. A law should make sure they are treated equally everywhere. There should be more help. The government should give money to self-help groups.

The PdF wants to revise and tighten the laws against discrimination and hate crime. Anti-discrimination offices are to be expanded, and minorities are to get easier access to education and work. According to the platform, the goal is better protection against racism and antisemitism.

The PdF wants stricter laws against discrimination. Discrimination means treating people worse, for example because of where they come from. Advice offices should get more money. Minorities should find it easier to learn and work.

The PdF wants to protect the free practice of religion for everyone and strictly uphold the separation of church and state. It rejects religious extremism and relies on prevention through education to counter it.

Everyone should be free to live their faith. The state should not favor any religion. Church and state should stay separate. Education should help against religious extremism.

The PdF wants to raise the number of shelter places for women affected by violence to 21,000 and fund women's shelters and counseling centers uniformly through a federal law. The platform considers existing services inadequate, especially in rural areas.

Many women experience violence. Women's shelters are often full and short of money. The PdF wants 21,000 shelter places. One law for all of Germany should settle the funding. Rural areas should have enough help too.

The PdF wants to legalize abortion in the first twelve weeks and regulate it outside the Criminal Code. Mandatory counseling would become a voluntary offer, and statutory health insurers would cover the costs. The platform justifies this with women's self-determination and equal access regardless of income.

The PdF wants to allow abortions up to the twelfth week. The rules should no longer be part of criminal law. Counseling should be voluntary. Health insurance should pay the costs.

The SPD wants women to stop earning less than men. To that end, the EU Pay Transparency Directive is to be transposed into German law by 2026 and the Entgelttransparenzgesetz (pay transparency act) developed into a pay equity law.

Women often earn less than men. The SPD wants to change that. A law should make pay easier to see. Germany would put an EU rule into practice for this. Social care jobs should get more recognition.

The SPD wants to improve accessibility in the public and private sectors and to require private providers to take part. People with disabilities should find it easier to work in the regular labor market, and workers in sheltered workshops should earn more.

People with disabilities should be able to take part everywhere. The SPD wants to remove barriers. Private companies must do so too. People with disabilities should find jobs more easily. In sheltered workshops they should get more money.

The SPD wants a nationwide legal entitlement to protection and counseling for people affected by violence. At the same time, the Gewaltschutzgesetz (Protection Against Violence Act) is to be tightened, for example with electronic ankle monitors and mandatory training for offenders.

The SPD wants to protect victims of violence at home better. Victims should have a right to a place in a women's shelter. They should also have a right to counseling. Offenders should be watched more closely, for example with an electronic ankle monitor.

The SPD wants to fight antisemitism and all group-focused hostility, and to promote and protect Jewish life in Germany. It bases this on Germany's special responsibility.

The SPD wants to fight hatred of Jews. Jewish people should be able to live safely in Germany. That applies on the street, online and at universities. The memory of the murder of the Jews should stay alive.

The SPD wants to make gender equality a guiding principle for all ministries and put the federal equality strategy on a statutory footing. Laws, measures and the federal budget are to be assessed for their effects on equality.

The SPD wants women and men to have equal chances by 2030. All ministries should pay attention to this. Every new law should be checked for it. The SPD also wants to act against hostility toward women.

The SPD wants abortion to no longer be regulated in criminal law, except where it happens against or without the pregnant woman's will. Abortion is to be part of basic medical care.

The SPD wants abortion to no longer be a crime. It stays a crime only if the woman does not want it. Abortion should be part of normal medical care.

The SPD wants a parity law to ensure women and men are equally represented in the Bundestag. Supervisory and executive boards are also to reach parity by 2030.

The SPD wants as many women as men in the Bundestag. A new law should ensure this. Company leadership should also have as many women as men by 2030. Later there should be an equality law for private companies.

The SPD wants to add sexual orientation and gender identity to Article 3 of the Basic Law. Queer families are to be treated fully equally in family and parentage law, and the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act) is to stay.

The SPD wants to protect queer people better. The constitution should ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. Families with two mothers or two fathers should get equal rights. The Self-Determination Act should stay.

The SPD wants to strengthen protection against discrimination, racism and exclusion. To do so, the General Equal Treatment Act is to be broadened and the office of the anti-racism commissioner made permanent.

The SPD wants to protect people better from racism. The law against unequal treatment should cover more cases. There should be more counseling centers. The office of the anti-racism commissioner should stay for good. There should be a new plan against racism.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to fully implement the Istanbul Convention on protecting women from violence. Women's shelters are to receive uniform, long-term funding nationwide to create the missing places.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to protect women better from violence. Women's shelters should get steady money from the state. There should be more places for women in need.

The Tierschutzpartei wants abortion regulated outside criminal law and Section 218 struck. Health insurers should cover the costs, and contraception should be free for everyone.

The Tierschutzpartei wants women to decide about a pregnancy themselves. Abortion should no longer be a crime. Health insurance should pay for it. Contraception should be free.

The Tierschutzpartei wants to reduce gender inequalities in pay, leadership, care work and medicine. It calls for equal pay, disclosure of pay differences and a women's quota in corporate leadership and political bodies.

The Tierschutzpartei wants equal chances for women and men. Women should earn the same as men. There should be a quota for women in top jobs and in politics. Fathers should take more parental leave.

The Tierschutzpartei wants people with disabilities to participate fully in all areas of life. It calls for more funding for inclusive schools and daycare centers, accessibility in everyday life and better access to the regular labor market.

The Tierschutzpartei wants people with disabilities to take part everywhere. Children with disabilities should go to regular daycare and schools. There should be more money and staff for this. Buildings, buses and trains should be free of barriers.

The Tierschutzpartei welcomes the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz (Self-Determination Act) and wants to remove all remaining legal inequalities affecting queer people. It also calls for rehabilitating everyone convicted under Section 175 and for education in schools.

The Tierschutzpartei wants equal rights for queer people. Queer means, for example, gay, lesbian or trans. Schools should teach about this topic. All men once punished for homosexuality should be cleared.

Volt wants stronger protection for people in the LGBTQIA+ community against violence and hate crime. It plans more support and prevention services, public campaigns, and dedicated contact points for those affected. The platform points to rising violence, especially against trans people.

Queer people often face violence. This is especially true for trans people. Volt wants to protect them better. There should be more help and prevention. Campaigns should inform people about the problem. Victims should get their own places to find help.

Volt wants comparable work to be paid equally regardless of personal characteristics such as gender, origin or disability. It also wants to strengthen collective bargaining coverage and make skills count more than formal degrees in the public sector.

Volt wants equal pay for equal work. This should apply to everyone. Gender, origin, religion or disability should not matter. More companies should pay union-agreed wages. In public-sector jobs, experience should count more than a degree.

Volt wants to define racism and racist violence as specific legal terms in criminal law and remove the word "Rasse" (race) from all statutes. It also wants to expand counseling and contact points for people affected by discrimination.

Volt wants criminal law to name racism clearly. The word "race" should be removed from laws. People who face discrimination should find more places that help them. Volt also wants campaigns against hatred of Sinti and Roma.

Volt wants a nationwide action plan against Islamophobia. The platform justifies this by saying Muslims face disadvantages in housing, education and employment.

Volt wants a plan against hostility toward Muslims for all of Germany. Volt says Muslims are often treated unfairly. Muslim women should get special protection. Researchers should study the causes.

Volt wants to better protect Jewish communities and fight antisemitism. The platform derives this from Germany's historical responsibility for the Holocaust.

Volt wants to protect Jewish communities better. There should be more officers and reporting offices against hatred of Jews. Schools should teach about the Shoah. The Shoah is the murder of Jews under the Nazis.

Volt wants to shift legal guardianship for people with disabilities to supported decision-making and give preference to outpatient care at home. Elections and civic education would become accessible.

People with disabilities should decide more for themselves. Guardians should support them instead of deciding for them. Care should take place in their own home where possible. Polling places must be accessible. That means everyone can use them without barriers.

Volt wants to protect gender identity and sexual diversity in Article 3 of the Basic Law and introduce co-motherhood from birth. Conversion treatments would be banned completely.

Volt wants the constitution to protect queer people from unfair treatment. With two mothers, the second mother should count as a parent from birth. Conversion treatments should be fully banned. These are attempts to change a person's sexual orientation or gender.

Volt wants to make feminism a guiding principle of politics. Budgets at every level of government would have to be planned in a gender-sensitive way, and every law would be checked for its effects on the genders. The party says this strengthens democracy and equality.

Volt wants politics to pay more attention to women. For every budget, officials should check how the money affects women and men. They should check this for every law too. Volt says this makes politics fairer.

Volt wants to close the pay gap between women and men. It plans transparency duties for companies, legal criteria for equal pay, a 50 percent women's quota on supervisory boards and in leadership positions, and an end to Ehegattensplitting (joint tax splitting for married couples). The party sees this as a step toward equality and social justice at work.

Women often earn less than men. Volt wants to change that. Larger companies should publish their pay data. Half of the top jobs should go to women. Married couples should no longer get a joint tax break. In return, the child benefit should go up.

Volt wants to fully implement the Istanbul Convention and protect women better against violence. It plans more places in women's shelters, round-the-clock emergency services, broader criminal liability and prevention that focuses on perpetrators. The platform calls gender-based violence a massive violation of human rights.

Volt wants to protect women better against violence. There should be more places in women's shelters. Staying there should be free. After a rape, help should be available fast, day and night. There should be more protection online too. Offenders should have to take courses.

Volt wants to repeal Section 218 of the Criminal Code and fully decriminalize abortion up to the 18th week of pregnancy. Mandatory counseling and waiting periods would end, and public health insurers would cover the costs. Non-commercial surrogacy and egg donation would also be legalized.

Volt wants to allow abortions up to the 18th week. They should no longer be a crime. Counseling should no longer be required. Health insurance should pay the costs. Egg donation should be allowed too. Parents should have more rights after a miscarriage.