Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-07-02-Speech-2-315"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-07-02"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Sexual and reproductive health and rights2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020702.14.2-315"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-07-02-Speech-2-3162
lpv:speaker	lp:Ulla Margrethe Sandbæk2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2003-03-24)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 substitute; EMPL (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; JuniBevægelsen (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EDD (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in 1994, there were 179 countries, including all the EU countries, which adopted the ICPD Programme on universal access to reproductive health by 2015. Progress in this area might have been expected since 1994, but the opposite has unfortunately been the case: the Arabic countries have entered into an unholy alliance with President Bush to obstruct the UN’s work on achieving the ICPD objectives. I was just recently at the American Congress in Washington in connection with a hearing concerning Mr Bush’s Mexico City Policy. I was together with a member of the Russian Duma who was able to state that, after the IPPF had made provision for reproductive health facilities in Russia, the number of abortions had fallen by as much as 25%. Why? The answer is quite logical. Any woman who has unintentionally become pregnant and refers herself to a clinic for an abortion instead of carrying out the abortion herself is always made aware of options other than abortion, informed about how she might avoid an unwanted pregnancy in the future and alerted to the possibility of HIV infection. The policies which this report proposes that Member States introduce will therefore lead to fewer, not more, abortions. The campaign conducted by opponents of abortion against the report is therefore absurd and, in certain cases, downright unsavoury. I am thinking of the e-mail sent by The Truth of God, maintaining that the real intention is to introduce eugenics in order to get rid of the poor and that the IPPF was founded by the British Eugenics Society. Statements such as these are an insult to our intelligence, but should also be followed up by libel proceedings. A vote in favour of this report is a vote in favour of ensuring everyone’s basic right to take free and informed decisions concerning their emotional, sexual and reproductive lives and of ensuring that everyone has the same opportunities to increase and protect their sexual and reproductive rights and, especially, to be protected against HIV infection. A desire to safeguard basic rights should be reason enough for voting in favour of the report. In order to reduce the risk of the spread of HIV, it is essential to vote in favour of the report."@en1

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