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"Mr President, we in our group discovered, after the group meeting, that there was a compromise amendment, Amendment No 70. I must explain that we were not invited to participate in this so-called compromise which, for many of us, contains proposals which we are unable to agree with. Nor does the Commissioner agree with them, as she has told us. Unfortunately, however, there is no separate vote on a compromise amendment. I must therefore explain that, for some of us, whilst we agree with the spirit of the proposal that there should be no discrimination against fathers, there is still a difference between paternity and maternity, at least as things are arranged at present, since men cannot become pregnant and they cannot give birth. I should like to say that we have voted freely, because we should have liked to participate in a compromise, because we have an amendment which..."@en1
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