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"I abstained on the final vote as regards this report for a number of reasons. The large number of separate and split votes, conducted at speed, means there are points where the text is probably no longer coherent with itself. In order to be coherent with my own vote on the Honeyball report at the last Strasbourg session, I find it difficult to support the outcome here. While there is much to support in this report – the need for the Council to break the deadlock on the Maternity Leave Directive, an ongoing commitment to access to care for undocumented women, a repetition of the EP’S commitment to gender budgeting to name but three examples – there were other points which were rejected and mean we left out important issues. I find it difficult to believe that the EPP voted against the right of women to be mothers and workers, or that the EP rejected the need to mainstream gender equality in our work with developing countries. I believe we need to rethink how we approach these reports in the face of determined, regressive attitudes coming from a section of the EP. Women’s rights and progress can no longer be taken for granted."@en1
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