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"Mr President, I voted against the report on HIV and AIDS, but not because I am opposed to people infected with HIV or AIDS being able to receive the best possible care or to more funding being set aside for drug development. What I am opposed to is things creeping into such a report that, in fact, have nothing to do with the actual subject. I am referring here, for example, to recital 22, which calls – and I quote – for ‘safe and legal abortion’.
Well, the European Union should not be meddling in these kinds of matters. This is a matter for the Member States, and if there are Member States that want abortion to remain illegal, then that should be perfectly possible.
The report rightly calls for respect for rights, including the right to privacy of those who have been infected, but it fails to address the question of how people who have to deal with those infected with the virus, such as doctors, dentists and nurses, can be protected if they are never made aware that one of their patients has been infected. This is a sensitive issue, but it is also a problem that urgently needs to be discussed. We should also be able to protect society at large."@en1
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