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Mr President, I read this report with great interest, since it quite rightly highlights a number of very specific problems relating to women’s health.
I am delighted that the interest we are taking in such matters may well be born out of the time-honoured European tradition of concern for the weaker members of society. This is a fine tradition in this instance, where there is every justification for turning our attention to women as the weaker half of the human race. At the same time, however, we must ask ourselves to what extent many of the problems facing women today stem from undesirable changes in civilisation, a flawed family model and negative ideologies that spread in the wake of modern ideas about good and evil and morality and immorality.
Men are working ever shorter hours, and in some Member States have even secured for themselves a 35-hour week, which means that nothing or almost nothing gets done. If we take this fact into account, as well as the fact that women also have to work this 35-hour week as well as looking after a home and family, it becomes clear that a woman’s lot is indeed harder. This begs the question of whether arrangements should not be made to allow women to stay at home if they so wish, and to devote themselves to their families instead of working as hard as they frequently do today.
In my opinion, this report fails to highlight the negative consequences of frequent abortions, although it states very clearly that women are suffering from extremely serious mental disorders. It also indicates that levels of alcoholism and drug addiction among women are rising, and, as Mrs Svensson notes, that an increasing number of women are committing suicide, which is highly regrettable. The question that needs to be asked is the extent to which this results from flawed family types and models and from such things as the effects of abortions or of certain contraceptives.
Ladies and gentlemen, in spite of everything we should welcome the fact that women still live longer than men in the majority of countries. It is an unfortunate fact, however, that this gap in life expectancy is narrowing, and this is quite obviously a result of the many problems to which Mrs Svensson refers in her report.
I regret to say that this report has a certain ideological slant. As noted by Mrs Krupa, this can be seen in paragraph 21, which refers quite unnecessarily to ‘reproductive health’, or in other words covertly encourages women to have abortions. I am mystified as to why ideology-crazed feminists come out of the woodwork during almost every debate we hold. During debates on AIDS and on the Millennium Goals, and during the debate this House held on equal rights for women and men, there was always someone who wanted to shoehorn in ‘reproductive health’, or in other words a covert endorsement of abortion. This is entirely unnecessary ideology.
Similarly, the confusion between patients and women in the health service is entirely misplaced ideology. Equal access for women and men to health services is one thing, but the internal workings of the health service are something else entirely. Unfortunately, this is yet another example of the deluded feminist ideas to which some Members of this House still fall prey.
It was with the greatest satisfaction and pleasure that I found in point D the statement that public health is affected primarily by ethical and moral principles. I hope that public health in Europe reaches an optimal level on the basis of good moral health."@en1
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