Activities of Sandra PEREIRA related to 2020/2215(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Sexual and reproductive health and rights in the EU, in the frame of women’s health (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the situation of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the EU, in the frame of women’s health
Amendments (18)
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas health rights, in particular sexual and reproductive health rights, are fundamental women's rights that should be enhanced and cannot be in any way watered down or withdrawn;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Points out that the EU and its Member States continue to face an economic and financial crisis, exacerbated by COVID-19, and that the measures that the EU institutions have imposed on the Member States over the years through the EU's economic governance policies and 'financial assistance' programmes have had adverse effects, felt particularly keenly by women, on public health services, including those related to sexual and reproductive health, in terms of both quality and accessibility, and to family planning; that these adverse effects have had serious repercussions on labour and social rights, curtailing women's economic independence in a civilisational backsliding on women's rights;
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that the Member States should adopt a public health policy that places special emphasis on health promotion and disease prevention by ensuring free, universal and high-quality healthcare and the resources required to combat the main public health problems;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Member States to ensure access to scientifically accurate and comprehensive sexuality education for all primary and secondary school children in line with WHO standards, as well as teacher training, the means for the proper functioning of support offices, and health education centres;
Amendment 347 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls upon the Member States to combat the spread of discriminatory and unsafe misinformation on SRHR, and to enhance safeguards of the right to reproductive health through public health services;
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls upon the Member States to ensure free access to contraceptive methods, thereby safeguarding the fundamental right to health; calls on the Member States to ensure the availability of family planning consultations covering, inter alia, procreation, antenatal matters, parenting techniques and infertility;
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls upon the Member States to ensure that contraception is covered under national reimbursement schemes and healthcare policies and to recognise that this coverage should be extended to all people offree to all people of reproductive age; calls on the Member States to ensure that public health services provide proper regular medical and psychological care that promotes and defends women's lifelong sexual and reproductive agehealth;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Member States to see to it that the vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) is administered free of charge to all women;
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Reaffirms that abortion must be a voluntary decision based on a woman’s request, given of her own free will, in accordance with medical standards based on WHO guidelines and calls upon the Member States to ensure free access to safe and legal abortion;
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Member States to regulate obstacles to legal abortion, and recalls that they have a responsibility to ensure that women have access to the rights afforded to them by law; urges the Member States to enhance the range of reproductive health services they offer to include more flexible options to support population groups such as young people, female migrants and the most deprived;
Amendment 413 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls upon the Member States to adopt measures to ensure that all women have access to affordablefree, high-quality, evidence-based maternity care; to ensure that all pregnant women have access to maternity services, and receive proper, high-quality clinical check-ups and all the health care they require;
Amendment 417 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls on the Member States to better protect new mothers and fathers, including by increasing periods of leave, taking into account the World Health Organization recommendation that children be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their lives, and ensuring that these periods of leave are remunerated at 100%, with no loss of earnings; calls for women to have the right, once their maternity leave ends, to reduce their working hours so that they can breastfeed their child until it is at least two years old, and for practical measures to be taken to ensure this protection, alongside investment in the establishment of a free public network of early childcare and education services;
Amendment 452 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7 a (new)
Subheading 7 a (new)
Stresses that there are a number of links between prostitution and trafficking, and acknowledges that prostitution – both in the EU and across the globe – fuels the trafficking of vulnerable women and minors;
Amendment 462 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Urges the Member States to raise awareness among women of the importance of regular screenings, and to ensure that public health services provide screenings such as mammograms and mammary ultrasonographies, cytology tests and bone density scans;
Amendment 467 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Calls for proper protection of female victims of domestic violence, with an increase in State resources and effective action to that end;
Amendment 474 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls upon the Commissioner for Health and Food Safety to promote and protect SRHR and to include them in the next EU public health strategy; stresses the need to boost investment in public services considerably, particularly in healthcare, education and transport services, in order to meet people's needs and contribute towards the independence, equality and emancipation of women;
Amendment 480 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls upon the Commissioner for Equality to promote and protect SRHR and to include them in the next EU gender equality strategy; stresses that any equality strategy should address all forms of violence against women, including backsliding on and violations of women's sexual and reproductive health and rights; reiterates the need to prioritise access to healthcare and public services, particularly access to abortion services and psychological support for female victims of violence;