In 2024, several months after the Coalition took power on 15 October, pro-abortion demonstrations returned to the streets with a mixture of hope and growing pressure. For many, the change of government was supposed to mean a rapid unblocking of reproductive rights after years of tightening and crises in healthcare. Meanwhile, the pace of work and the lack of full agreement within the parliamentary majority itself became a source of frustration.

The protests – including those around 8 March and during parliamentary debates on draft legislation – served a dual purpose: they served as a reminder of election promises and demanded concrete legislative action (legal abortion, decriminalisation of assistance, real access to services), as well as calling on the government to keep its promises and publicly holding it to account for its lack of progress. The street reacted particularly strongly when work on the changes got bogged down in procedures, was postponed, or when successive votes revealed cracks in the coalition.

In the second half of the year, when some of the proposals failed to gain a majority, the demonstrations took on a more confrontational tone. Alongside slogans about the right to self-determination, accusations of procrastination and inconsistency began to appear. As a result, 2024 became a year in which the abortion debate once again marked the line of tension between social expectations after the change of government and the political limitations of the law-making process.