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The report on sexual and reproductive health and rights is, amongst other things, damaging to the equal dignity of men and women. Besides, by talking of reproductive rights and not of rights to procreation, women end up being likened to breeding animals or machines. As the
we reject this mechanistic idea of the birth of a human life and we refute the cultural idea which sets a woman’s freedom against the unborn child’s right to life. Also unacceptable is the idea that abortion should become a method of contraception, and we are certain that, for the protection of health, any product deemed to be medicinal should be available at an accessible price and be supplied on a medical prescription.
We also point out that:
competence in health matters lies with the Member States, as do decisions in the area of ethics;
the report does not deal at all with problems connected with the right to life and the right to a dignified life, nor does it address issues which we have repeatedly put to the Commission, such as a fund to help women in financial or psychological difficulties who would like to terminate a pregnancy. The major issues raised by today’s society are not covered either, such as personal relations in the broad sense, or matters of sex education;
a woman’s dignity and her involvement in one of the most meaningful events in life, maternity, is treated only from the viewpoint of reproduction or the control of a sexual right."@en1
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