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My colleague’s, Mrs Sandbaek’s, report has given rise to much debate and triggered some passionate feeling. The report contains only sensible amendments, however.
Reducing the mortality rate among pregnant women and encouraging equal access to care and benefits when it comes to health in pregnancy and to reproductive rights are objectives that I vigorously support and that stem from the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD).
In many developing countries, women fight for their reproductive rights and for control of their sexuality. For these women, achieving these rights and this control entails being able freely to choose the number of children they have, as well as the gaps between the birth of one child and the next.
By opposing this access to information and a situation in which these rights are granted across the board, the door is closed to the fight against poverty and a delay imposed upon economic development, which is closely linked to improvements in the health and health care of the populations of the developing countries.
A number of colleagues have, however, chosen to deny women these basic rights by proposing another route, that of supporting them in choosing to have their babies. This is a covert way of denying women’s inalienable right to abortion.
For all these reasons, I have, in all conscience, supported Mrs Sandbaek’s report."@en1
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