Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-02-12-Speech-3-279"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-02-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Aid for sexual health in developing countries2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030212.9.3-279"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-02-12-Speech-3-2802
lpv:speaker	lp:Chantal Cauquil2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Lutte ouvrière (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EUL/NGL (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2003-04-23)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the explanatory memorandum to this report implicitly constitutes a real indictment of the current economic and social order as reflected in the areas of health and rights concerning reproduction and sexuality. It is revolting, in fact, that pregnancy and giving birth should be among the principal causes of death and injury among women living in developing countries. Of the 600 000 deaths which occur following a pregnancy, 99% occur in developing countries, a dreadful figure, to which we then need to add the 50 million women who suffer serious complications. It is also revolting to find that AIDS and, more generally, sexually-transmitted diseases, affect poor countries much more than developed countries. Consequently, the proposals which have been put forward seem quite derisory as a means of dealing with this situation. Moreover, the failings noted in these proposals are not merely connected with the insufficiency of the funding proposed for the implementation of a health policy for poor countries. Even more serious is our inability to lay the blame at the door of the pharmaceutical trusts which, in order to preserve their profits, are even opposed to the idea of marketing generic medicines. The dictatorship exercised on society by industrial and financial groups, which is unbearable in all areas of society, has drastic consequences in areas involving the health and physical integrity of human beings. In the face of this dictatorship, all these proposals merely serve to illustrate the powerlessness of the European institutions as soon as it is a question of an area which touches the lives of women and men. Nevertheless we shall vote for those amendments which are likely to lead to a certain amount of improvement or which at least confirm certain human principles, including the right to contraception and abortion."@en1

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