21 Amendments of Arne GERICKE related to 2016/2096(INI)
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas human rights, self- determination and maternal health in connection with safe and natural birth are of particular importance;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas lack of access to sexual and reproductive rights, including safe and legal abortion services,efforts to improve maternal health form the basis for not endangersing the life and health of women and girls, increasesfor markedly reducing maternal mortality and morbidity, and leads to the denial of life- saving care and to an increased number offor preventing clandestine abortions;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas one in four births in the EU is now by caesarean section and, statistically, attendant health problems for mothers and children are increasing;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas there are already dangerous gaps in provision in some Member States as a result of closures of maternity hospitals and the considerable reduction in the number of private midwives and obstetricians;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas breastfeeding is particularly important for the health of mothers and infants;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P a (new)
Recital P a (new)
Pa. whereas the abuse of girls and young women as a result of the inhuman practice of breast ironing is an underestimated problem throughout the world, including in many EU countries;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Qa (new)
Recital Qa (new)
Qa. whereas homeopathic medicines are of particular importance for pregnant and breastfeeding women;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) to recognise male violence against women, whatever form it takes, and abuse of the female body through surrogacy as a public health issue, whatever form it takes;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
(c) to support civil society and women’s organisations that promote women’s rights, including women’s sexual and reproductive health andhealth rights, and to work to ensure that women have a voice in European and national health policy issues;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for a right to safe birth and greater comprehensive and local obstetric care provision, extending to private midwives and obstetricians, to be guaranteed in all EU Member States, and stresses the particular significance of that challenge for rural areas and the Alpine region;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that sexual and reproductive rights include universal open access to legal and safe abortion, reliable, safe and affordable contraception, and sexual education and information on sexual and reproductive health, free choice and consent; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights, adequate gender-sensitive information and reliable, safe and affordable contraception, and to provide access to legal and safe abortion within and beyond the European Unionthe health of mother and child is a fundamental right;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Condemns the practice of surrogacy, which undermines the human dignity of the woman since her body and its reproductive functions are used as a commodity; considers that the practice of gestational surrogacy which involves reproductive exploitation and use of the human body for financial or other gain, in particular in the case of vulnerable women in developing countries, should be prohibited in all EU Member States;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls for a right to safe birth throughout Europe;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Considers that the Member States have an obligation to guarantee local obstetric care provision as a public service and to ensure that midwives are available in rural and Alpine regions too;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Acknowledges the importance of breastfeeding for mothers and children, and calls for cross-border awareness- raising on the issue and for a cross-border guarantee of a right to breastfeed across Europe;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Member States to prevent, ban and prosecute female genital mutilation and breast ironing and to provide specialised health services for women victims of FGM;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines the fact that clinical trials of pharmaceutical products on both men and women are necessary and that these should be inclusive, non- discriminatory and performed under conditions of equality, inclusion and non- marginalisation; suggests that clinical trials also take account of specific vulnerable population groups such as paediatric and geriatric patients, and ethnic minorities, and recognise homeopathy; is of the opinion that gender-disaggregated data should also be collected after commercialisation of the products, in order to record the different side-effects;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls for a cross-Europe ban on surrogacy, since it represents abuse of the women concerned and violence against the female body;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Urges the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) to draw up separate guidelines for women as a special population in clinical trials and, in particular as regards the situation of pregnant and breastfeeding women, to recognise homeopathy;