Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-07-02-Speech-2-327"

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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	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020702.14.2-327"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-07-02-Speech-2-3282
lpv:speaker	lp:Frank Vanhecke2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2002-02-07--2003-06-04)3 member; NA (2001-10-03--2003-06-04)3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2003-06-04)3 unknown; Vlaams Blok (1999-07-20--2003-06-04)3 substitute; AGRI (2002-02-05--2003-06-04)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2003-06-04)3
lpv:translated text	"Thank you, Mr President. The lateness of the hour and the limited speaking time oblige me to confine myself to one single reason from a nonetheless long list of reasons for rejecting this report, and for the sake of convenience, I will therefore pass over the fact that Parliament has no authority whatsoever in the fundamental matters underlying this report, and what is before us should really be considered as a kind of ideological occupational therapy, as the umpteenth violation of the subsidiarity principle and as an attempt to force the practice of abortion on the candidate countries as some kind of which is wholly unacceptable. Allow me to give you a fundamental reason. It really is beyond me how the termination of life by abortion can be considered as a kind of victory in terms of human rights in such a nonchalant manner. I am quite happy to enter into a debate with people who ask for sympathy for emergency cases, but this report’s abortion propaganda, which is hardly discreet, goes against the grain with me. In fact, I think that taking life is the opposite of reproductive health. The truth is, moreover, that very many abortions, the majority of them, in fact, are the result of parents lacking the material resources to accommodate children, for example, because marriage is still being penalised fiscally, because child benefit is too low or because our society does not value the family. Despite this, there is in Europe an enormous demographic problem, one that can obviously not be solved by abortion, but by sound, positive family policy and sound, child-friendly policy."@en1

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