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"Mr President, while I believe it is an obvious right that women’s health issues should be a concern for us all globally, I also believe it is the right of every nation to spend its taxpayers’ money in the way it sees fit. The fact of the matter is this is a decision for the government and people of the United States of America, and to call it war on feminism as someone did, is hyperbole and just demeans their argument.
We must look back in history and acknowledge that this legislation is a political football, even in the United States. Its origins go back as far as the Reagan administration. It has been brought in and rescinded by previous administrations as the republican and democratic fortunes have waxed and waned. The powerful religious factions who support this in the United States have a precise analogue here in Europe, where the Catholic Church strongly opposed Parliament’s own Sandbæk report.
Issues of this kind are heavily emotive and each person must reach into their own moral core to decide how to speak and vote. In the end, I believe it is not for the European Parliament to tell the US Government what to do. You would not be pleased if the positions were reversed, so I would urge you to consider these points."@en1
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