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"What is this debate that we are holding amongst ourselves about this report? One might imagine that it was an administrative debate, but that is not the case. This is a debate about people’s rights, and the reproductive rights that we are talking about this evening represent a further step forward.
The first generation of fundamental rights was concerned with civil and political rights, and the second concentrated on social rights. Now, finally, we are talking about reproductive rights, about women’s right to their own bodies.
We have now reached the stage where we are defining those rights, and here the WHO concept, which regards health as a fundamental right, will support our efforts to define a framework which will establish reproductive health in law. However, we must be aware that, when it comes to procreation, in Europe and elsewhere in the world, people do not have a free choice. In order for men and women to obtain that freedom of choice, they must have access to information about the various options possible, and their respective consequences, hence the need for education about sex and the emotions, which plays a very important role.
Such education, however, is influenced by different political, cultural and family contexts, so there is a lot at stake. We need to make room for a possible debate which respects individuals and their cultures, a debate in which respect for each individual must force us to provide the sort of education which tackles all the issues, and which always provides full information.
At the present time, in many countries, public policies aim to give women autonomy by means of a series of measures, including education, which must cover all areas of life if it is to be a tool of democracy. To exclude certain aspects is to practise censorship, to deliberately withhold knowledge and to fail to respect individuals’ capacity for free choice. To bring laws and real life closer together is to organise the emancipatory evolution of a society. This is yet another signal, another project which Europe is able to achieve and of which we can be proud."@en1
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