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Activities of Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN 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)
2021/06/23
Dossiers: 2020/2215(INI)

Shadow reports (1)

REPORT on the situation of sexual and reproductive health and rights in the EU, in the frame of women’s health
2021/06/10
Committee: FEMM
Dossiers: 2020/2215(INI)
Documents: PDF(276 KB) DOC(100 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Predrag Fred MATIĆ', 'mepid': 197441}]

Amendments (165)

Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1
— having regard to Article 168(7) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which states that Union action shall respect the responsibilities of the Member States for the definition of their health policy and for the organisation and delivery of health services and medical care,
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
— having regard to the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo, its Programme of Action and the outcomes of its review conferences,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
— having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 December 1948 (Article 3: ‘Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person’ and Article 4: ‘No one shall be held in slavery or servitude’), and to Article 5 thereof (‘Nobody shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment), as the procedures employed in an abortion (vacuum aspiration, cutting, saline solution which slowly burns the foetus, among others) are, by any reckoning, inhuman, with regard to the family, the human nucleus that protects the most the right to life (Article 16(3): ‘The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State’),
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
- having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3
— having regard to the Nairobi Statement on ICPD25 of 1 November 2019 entitled ‘Accelerating the Promise’ and to the national and partner commitments and collaborative actions that were announced at the Nairobi Summit,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
— having regard to the Convention of 4 November 1950 for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms,
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4
— having regard to the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcomes of its review conferences,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
— having regard to the European Social Charter of 18 October 1961,
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5
— having regard to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which was adopted on 25 September 2015 and entered into force on 1 January 2016, and in particular to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3, 5 and 16,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
— having regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 16 December 1966 (Article 6(1): ‘Every human being has the inherent right to life. This right shall be protected by law. No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life’),
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6
— having regard to the 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 Contraception Atlases, which rank access to contraception in geographical Europe and highlight inequalities across the continent and the fact that the unmet need for contraception in some parts of Europe has gone largely unnoticed,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
— having regard to the declaration of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child of 20 November 1989, which lays down in its Preamble that ‘the child ... needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth’,
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7
— having regard to CEDAW General Recommendations No. 21 (1994), No. 24 (1999), No. 28 (2010), No. 33 (2015) and No. 35 (2017),deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8
— having regard to Article 12 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
— having regard to Article 5(3) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and Protocol No 2 on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, which confirms the Member States' capacity to make decisions and take action in order to ensure that, so far as is possible, powers are exercised close to the citizens, in accordance with the proximity principle referred to in Article 10(3) TEU,
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9
— having regard to general comment No. 22 of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 2 May 2016 on the right to sexual and reproductive health,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)
— having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10
— having regard to Articles 2, 7, 17 and 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
— having regard to the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Case C-34/10 (‘Oliver Brüstle v. Greenpeace eV’), which stated that as a matter of scientific fact a new human life begins at conception, and that the human embryo constitutes a precise stage in the development of the human body,
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11
— having regard to general comment No. 36 of the UN Human Rights Committee of 30 October 2018 on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, on the right to life,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
— having regard to the supervision of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which recommended that eugenic abortion be abolished: ‘The Committee recommends that the State party abolish the distinction made in Act 2/2010 in the period allowed under law within which a pregnancy can be terminated based solely on disability’,
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12
— having regard to the interim report of the UN Special Rapporteur of 3 August 2011 on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)
— having regard to the European Convention on Human Rights (Article 2(1): ‘No one shall be deprived of his life intentionally save in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which the penalty is provided by law'),
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13
— having regard to the report of the UN Special Rapporteur of 4 April 2016 on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)
— having regard to the Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons (Resolution 2856 (XXVI) of the UN General Assembly of 20 December 1971),
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14
— having regard to the reports of the UN Special Rapporteur for Violence Against Women, its Causes and Consequences, including the report of 11 July 2019 on a human-rights-based approach to mistreatment and violence against women in reproductive health services with a focus on childbirth and obstetric violence,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
— having regard to the Declaration on the Rights of the Unborn Child of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe of 6 October 1979 (The child that is to be born shall have from the moment of conception all the rights set out in this Declaration),
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17
— having regard to Council Directive 2004/113/EC of 13 December 2004 implementing the principle of equal treatment between women and men in the access to and supply of goods and services1, _________________ 1 OJ L 373, 21.12.2004, p. 37.deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18
— having regard to the report of the UN Working Group of 8 April 2016 on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice, presented at the 32nd session of the Human Rights Council in June 2016,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 19
— having regard to Section II of the Report of the UN Working Group of 14 May 2018 on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20
— having regard to Section III of the Report of the UN Working Group of 8 April 2016 on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practice,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21
— having regard to the Report of the UN Special Rapporteur of 10 January 2019 on the situation of human rights defenders,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23
— having regard to Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use3, _________________ 3 OJ L 311, 28.11.2001, p. 67.deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 24
— having regard to the Joint Statement by the Council and the representatives of the governments of the member states meeting within the Council, the European Parliament, and the European Commission of 19 November 2018 entitled ‘The New European Consensus on Development: Our World, Our Dignity, Our Future’, in which the EU reaffirms its commitment to the promotion, protection and fulfilment of the right of every individual to have full control over, and decide freely and responsibly on matters related to their sexuality and sexual and reproductive health, free from discrimination, coercion and violence,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 25
— having regard to its resolution of 14 November 2019 on the criminalisation of sexual education in Poland4, _________________ 4 Texts adopted, P9_TA(2019)0058.deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 26
— having regard to its resolution of 13 February 2019 on experiencing a backlash in women’s rights and gender equality in the EU5, _________________ 5 Texts adopted, P8_TA(2019)0111.deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 27
— having regard to its resolution of 14 February 2017 on promoting gender equality in mental health and clinical research6, _________________ 6 OJ C 252, 18.7.2018, p. 99.deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 28
— having regard to the European Pact for Gender Equality (2011-2020), adopted by the Council on 7 March 2011,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 31
— having regard to the issue paper of the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights of December 2017 on women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in Europe,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 32
— having regard to WHO’s 2017- 2021 Strategy on women’s health and wellbeing in the WHO European Region and the 2016 Action Plan for Sexual and Reproductive Health: towards achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Europe – leaving no one behind,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 33
— having regard to WHO’s Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health 2016-2030,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 34
— having regard to the WHO Regional Office for Europe and BZgA’s standards for sexuality education in Europe: a framework for policy makers, educational and health authorities and specialists, and to UNESCO’s international technical guidance on sexuality education: an evidence- informed approach,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 35
— having regard to the decision of the European Committee of Social Rights of 30 March 2009 on collective complaint No. 45/2007 by the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights (INTERIGHTS) vs Croatia and general comment No. 15 of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child of 17 April 2013 on the right of the child to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health (art. 24), which stresses that adolescents should have access to appropriate and objective information on sexual and reproductive issues,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 36
— having regard to the United Nations Population Fund’s State of World Population 2019 report entitled ‘Unfinished Business: the pursuit of rights and choices FOR ALL’,deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 36 a (new)
- having regard to the FEMM committee decision to work against pro- life civil society organisations by pursuing an Initiative report on foreign funding of so-called anti-choice groups,
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38
— having regard to the report of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (A9-0000/2020),deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 38 a (new)
— having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 10 December 2013 on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (2013/2040(INI)),
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to all aspects of sexuality and reproduction, not merely the absence of dysfunction, infirmity or mortality, and whereas all individuals have a right to make decisions governing their bodies8; _________________ 8Guttmacher-Lancet Commission, Executive Summary on sexual and reproductive health and rights, The Lancet, London, 2018, https://www.guttmacher.org/guttmacher- lancet-commission/accelerate-progress- executive-summarydeleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to all aspects of sexuality and reproduction, not merely the absence of dysfunction, infirmity or mortality, and whereas all individuals have a right to make decisions governing their bodies8 ; _________________ 8 Guttmacher-Lancet Commission, Executive Summary on sexual and reproductive health and rights, The Lancet, London, 2018, https://www.guttmacher.org/guttmacher- lancet-commission/accelerate-progress- executive-summary, sexuality and intimacy belong in the private sphere;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the UN convention of the Rights of the Child notes that, "the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth", and that this can must include the primary right, that of the right to life, without which all other human rights are void;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the defence of life and health, being core values, define human freedom and dignity;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas human freedom in the defence of health and life has its origin in the will of someone who has previously decided on our own existence;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas the logic of the majority does not legitimise the ethics of any practice such as abortion;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas the Member States have sole competence in matters related to specific health issues and reproductive issues, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity confirmed in the Treaty on European Union;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas human rights are inherent to all human beings, without any distinction or discrimination as regards nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status; whereas, accordingly, they cannot be subjugated to a line of thought or an ideology and trend at a point in history that is at odds with their underlying universality and necessity;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A f (new)
Af. whereas vague, undefined or euphemistic and/or contradictory expressions or nomenclatures cannot be used for the so-called 'sexual and reproductive rights' where what is openly meant is the right to abortion, contraception and loss of freedom for doctors who will not be able to invoke conscientious objection;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A g (new)
Ag. whereas currently no international consensus exists that legitimises the definition of 'sexual and reproductive rights' and whereas it is not possible surreptitiously to impose it de facto within the law;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A h (new)
A h. whereas metalanguage such as the 'gender perspective' and stereotypes such as 'male violence' are being used to accentuate the victimisation of women, thus undermining their freedom in taking decisions on defending the family and the right to life;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are based on the rights of all individuals to have their bodily integrity and personal autonomy respected; define their sexual orientation and gender identity; decide whether, with whom and when to be sexually active; decide whether, when and who to marry and when, whether and by what means to have a child or children; have access to the information and support necessary to achieve all of the above9; _________________ 9 Guttmacher-Lancet Commission, Executive Summary on sexual and reproductive health and rights, The Lancet, London, 2018, https://www.guttmacher.org/guttmacher- lancet-commission/accelerate-progress- executive-summarydeleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas this draft report's approach takes a biased and reductionist viewpoint based on an individualistic interpretation of sexuality which fails to pay due attention to the mutual love and decision-making capacity inherent within a couple;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
B b. whereas a child is a gift rather than a right or a product and whereas the desire to have a child is insufficient justification for certain artificial means of creating life;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
B c. whereas the binary sexual difference between men and women is necessarily complementary in creating a new life;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) are recognised as human rights in international and European human rights law10; _________________ 10Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in Europe, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2017, https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/ women-s-sexual-and-reproductive-rights- in-europe.deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas so-called sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) are recognnot established as human rights in international and European human rights law10 ; _________________ 10Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in Europe, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2017, https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/ women-s-sexual-and-reproductive-rights- in-europe.; whereas the right to integrity as enshrined in article 3 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights should not be subject to misleading interpretation;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas all the human rights enshrined by the European Union since its foundation are anchored in natural law and a timeless Judaeo-Christian and Greco-Roman tradition;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas intelligence is the natural power of human beings that enables them to assimilate the reality and truth of things while maintaining the order and internal sense behind the axioms that constitute the rule of law safeguarded within the European project;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
D c. whereas Natural Law is the foundation of human and fundamental rights and whereas these rights must be answerable to the former as guarantors of positive law; whereas all human beings have natural rights, such as the right to life, as a function of their own condition; whereas, therefore, no rule, ideology or social or political current may invoke these rights to contravene them, since they are a building block of the singular, unique human condition;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)
C d. whereas life is a prerequisite for any right; whereas the right to life is the primary and foremost human right as it is answerable to natural law and forms the basis for the exercise of all other human and fundamental rights;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas violations of SRHR constitute breaches of human rights, specifically the right to life, physical and mental integrity, equality, non- discrimination, health and education; whereas violations of women’s SRHR are a form of violence against women and girls;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas violations of SRHR constitute breaches of human rights, specifically the right to life, physical and mental integrity, equality, non- discrimination, health and education; whereas violations of women’s SRHR are a form of violence against women and girls;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas abortion on demand makes the unborn child the property of the mother, who thus has power of life or death over the baby as if it were a mere object of desire;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas although the EU has some of the highest SHRH standards in the world, there are still challenges, a lack of access, gaps and inequalities;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas SRHR challenges and obstacles include: a lack of access, denial of medical care based on personal beliefs, gender-based violence, gynaecological and obstetric violence, a lack of comprehensive sexuality education, denial of access to information/education, a lack of available contraception methods, limited access to medically assisted reproduction treatments, forced sterilisation, high rates of STIs and HIV, disparities in maternal mortality, high adolescent pregnancy rates, harmful gender stereotypes and practices such as female genital mutilation, early, forced and child marriages and honour killings;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas the family, as a natural society, existed before the state or any other community, and has its own inalienable rights;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
F b. whereas the family constitutes, above and beyond a legal, social and economic unit, a community of love and solidarity in which generations live side by side, and whereas it is irreplaceable for the teaching and transmission of the cultural, ethical, social and spiritual values which are essential for the development and well-being of its own members and society at large;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas the unavailability of scientifically accurate information violates the rights of individuals to make informed choices about their own SRHR;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas the unavailability of unbiased scientifically accurate information violates the rights of individuals to make informed choices about their own SRHR;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
G a. whereas advertising, the media, digital media and social networks can provide content that is unsuitable for the various cicles of maturity of children and can encourage inappropriate behaviour that is, furthermore, leading to the hypersexualisation of society;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
G a. whereas if abortion proponents are unclear on whether a fetus in utero is a human being, they can consult any medical text book;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
G b. whereas there is an urgent need for comprehensive sex education that encompasses all dimensions of human nature: physical, mental, emotional/affective and spiritual;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas the essential package of SRH measures includes: comprehensive sexuality education; modern contraceptives; antenatal, childbirth and postnatal care; midwifery; obstetric and newborn care; safe and legal abortion services; the prevention and treatment of HIV and other STIs; services aimed at detecting, preventing and treating sexual and gender-based violence; treatment for reproductive cancers; and fertility services;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas life's inherent logic entails the assertion that we cannot deny anyone the life that no one has denied us;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas comprehensive sexuality education facilitates informed reproductive choices;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas the success of comprehensive sexuality education facilitates informed reproductive choicein preventing unwanted pregnancies is not scientifically proven, as it can lead to earlier and increased sexual activity amongst minors;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas the concept of health refers first and foremost to the protection and defence of human life in all circumstances with a view to the full development of the various dimensions of the individual in question;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
J. whereas some Member States still have laws prohibiting abortion except in strictly defined circumstances, forcing women to seek clandestine abortions, to travel to other countries or to carry their pregnancy to term against their will, which is a violation of human rights and a form of gender-based violence;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
J a. whereas every human being is obliged and duty-bound to be aware of the extent of their acts and responsibility for them and cannot absolve themselves of their responsibilities, just as under the rule of law ignorance of the law does not exempt people from compliance with it;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
K. whereas even when abortion is legally available, there are often barriers to accessing it;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
K a. whereas causing the death of the unborn child in the mother's womb can never constitute the exercise of human freedom since it goes against its very nature;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
K b. whereas human beings seek self- realisation in the form of the pursuit of happiness; whereas the latter constitutes the development of human virtues and of their principles, values and capacities, which is the path to personal fulfilment;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K c (new)
D c. whereas the defence of life from conception to natural death is the manifestation of the full solidarity of a civilisation that will not let itself be vanquished by fear and despair;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
L a. whereas to fight for life is not to give in to difficulties: death, suffering or one's own fear;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)
K b. whereas under the principle of non-contradiction one cannot be and not be at the same time. One cannot defend life and health while legitimising a decision at odds with it such as abortion;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
M. whereas SRHR issues are often instrumentalised by opponents of reproductive rights who appeal to national interests in order to achieve demographic objectives, thus contributing to the erosion of democracy and personal freedoms;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
M a. whereas the image of motherhood and the family has been devalued in our society;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M b (new)
M b. whereas the best way to protect against the expectant mother and the child's vulnerability entails recognition of the existence of two persons with dignity and rights from the moment of conception: the mother and the child; the unborn child is a subject with full rights and freedoms that contributes to the woman's full self-realisation in her maternal dimension with a view to ensuring her happiness;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
N. whereas progress has been made in the areas of women’s rights and SRHR, but opponents of reproductive rights have nonetheless had an influence on national law and policy, seeking to undermine SRHR, as noted by Parliament in its resolution on experiencing backlash in women’s rights and gender equality in the EU and by the European Institute for Gender Equality in its report of 22 November 2019 on Beijing +25 – The 5th Review of the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in the EU Member States;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
N a. whereas human freedom ceases to be human and freedom when one inflicts effective damage on oneself and/or others, as in the case of abortion and violence of conscience on the part of the doctor who swore in the Hippocratic oath to defend life and protect good health. This 'health' law does not seek to ensure everything works correctly but rather wishes for it to cease functioning;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N b (new)
N b. whereas privacy and respect for the private sphere directly affect the dignity of individuals and their concept of freedom;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Forging a consensus and addressing SRHR challenges asthe dimensions affecting the defence of life, sexuality and motherhood with regard to their freedom and dignity as an EU challenges
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Calls upon the EU, its bodies and agencies to support and promote access to SRHR services and calls upon the Member States to ensure access to a full range of SRHR, and to remove all barriers impeding full access to SRHR;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Invites the Member States to ensure policies for the defence of life in line with the provisions defending human rights enshrined in the United Nations Charter and the related legislation, treaties and conventions;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Recalls that the widely accepted constitutional right to freedom of conscience must be respected when any individual considers that the most intimate convictions of their conscience are being violated;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Recalls the timeless tradition of the Hippocratic Oath, whose principles include the defence of life, worded as follows: 'I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody, no matter how much I am asked to do so, nor will I take any measures to that effect; similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. On the contrary, in purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art';
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Urges the Member States to draw up reports expressing the harmful effects of the abortion process on women on an emotional, psychological, emotional and spiritual level with a view to safeguarding their mental, physical and psychological health;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1 e. Invites the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to respect the Member States' internal rules on health-related rights and to draw attention to process for managing pain and suffering based on human love, solidarity and charity towards people;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1 f. Upholds the universal human right to conscientious objection together with the responsibility of the state to ensure that patients are able to access lawful medical care in a timely manner, in particular in cases of emergency pre- natal and maternal health care; recalls that no person, hospital or institution should be coerced, held liable or discriminated against in any manner because of a refusal to perform, accept, assist with or submit to an abortion or any act which could cause the death of a human foetus or embryo, for any reason;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Encourages Member States to exercise their exclusive competence under the principle of subsidiarity in matters concerning health and sexuality, striving to protect human rights, in particular the right to health, and ensuring that the principle of non-regression is upheld;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity and in line with national competences, calls upon the Member States to safeguard the right of all persons to make their own informed choices with regard to SRHR;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Calls upon the Member States to address the challenges in accessing or exercising SRHR and ensure that no person is left behind by being unable to exercise their right to health;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Calls upon the Member States to address the challenges in accessing or exercising SRHR and ensure that peer- reviewed medical studies are carried out to see if any medical benefit or harm results from this access, as no studies to date have proven any benefit, which would ensure that no person is left behind by being unable to exercise their right to health;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that all policies relating to SRHR should be founded on reliable and objective evidence from organisations such as WHO, other UN agencies and the Council of Europe;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls for the recognition of access to various sources of truthful and scientific information that can inform debate and thinking in respect of the WHO's guidelines and promote scientific debate on such sensitive issues as the right to life with the diversity of opinions and viewpoints that these matters demand;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Reaffirms the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights call on its member states11to guarantee sufficient budgetary provision for SRHR and ensure the availability of adequate human resources; _________________ 11Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in Europe, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe, 2017, https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/ women-s-sexual-and-reproductive-rights- in-europedeleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Sexual and reproductive health as an essential component of good healthWomen's health, sexuality and motherhood
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls upon the Member States to establish effective strategies and monitoring programmes that guarantee access to a full range of SRHR services;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Member States to establish protocols for monitoring the optimal health of women at various stages of their lives;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that all medical interventions related to SRHR must be undertaken with fully informed consent;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls that any health-related medical intervention and treatment must be accompanied by comprehensive information provided by a specialist medical practitioner setting out the procedure to be followed and the detailed risks and benefits, and formalised through informed consent;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution
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;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Member States to respect the right of parents to teach their own values and beliefs, provided that they are in strict compliance with the human rights enshrined in natural law and respect for life; to establish programmes consistent with children’s maturity at a given stage in their development, respecting their childhood innocence, purity and modesty and preventing early sexuality, which disorients children, including the threat of reprehensible situations such as paedophilia; to promote teaching of the free and conscious relationship between people based on the affection, love, responsibility and respect for intimacy that can give birth to a new life;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls upon the Member States to combat the spread of discriminatory and unsafe misinformation on SRHR;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls for recognition of access to various sources of truthful and scientific information that can inform debate and thinking in respect of the WHO's guidelines;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Member States to recognise the educational irresponsibility of the media in exposing children and young people to content that is not appropriate to their age, such as pornography;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Calls on the Member States to promote faith, culture and tradition as the bedrock of the European Union family;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading b
Modern contraception as a strategy for achieving gender equalitydeleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading b
Modern cContraception as a strategy for achieving gender equality
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Calls upon the Member States to ensure access to contraceptive methods, thereby safeguarding the fundamental right to health;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Member States to promote natural fertility recognition as an orderly way for people to have the greatest possible expression of propioceptive and ecological knowledge of their own body, as well as enabling them to make conscious, free and responsible decisions about their behaviour;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Urges the Member States to provide accurate information on the undesirable side-effects and effectiveness of contraceptive methods which encourage a mistaken perception of their fertility and lead them into irresponsible behaviour;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Calls on the Member States to recognise that disconnecting sexual relations from their natural consequence of creating life trivialises them;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution
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 of reproductive age;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Urges the Member States to investigate the reason for the high rates of infertility and the business surrounding it;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading c
c) Safe and legal abortion care anchored in women’s health and rightsAbortion
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading c a (new)
Urges the Member States to ensure that abortion cannot in any way be regarded as a fundamental right or be assimilated to a human right;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution
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 access to safe and legal abortion;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Urges the Member States not to allow the concept of sexual and reproductive health to be used to refer to the practice of abortion;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on the Member States to recognise that the concept of reproductive health must necessarily be linked to fertility;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Urges the Member States to reiterate the right of every woman to continue her pregnancy;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 d (new)
12d. Calls on the Member States not to contradict each other by supporting conflicting rights, such as the right to continue a pregnancy and the right to abortion;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 e (new)
12e. Urges the Member States to stress recognition of the role of fathers in decisions concerning their own children, especially when those children's lives are at stake;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 f (new)
12f. Calls on the Member States not to mask the nature of abortion by describing it as a procedure, when in fact it is nothing other than cruel, inhuman and degrading torture for both child and mother;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 g (new)
12g. Calls on the Member States to acknowledge that the right to patient autonomy can never constitute a form of aggression against their integrity, as is the case with abortion;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 h (new)
12h. Urges the Member States to require, in every single case, that informed consent is obtained by means of a doctor providing full and detailed information in which the procedure to be followed and the consequences of taking this irreversible decision are explained;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
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;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading d
d) Maternity care for all and the rights of the child
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Calls upon the Member States to adopt measures to ensure that all women have access to affordable, evidence-based maternity carepregnancy and maternity monitoring and support;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Urges the Member States to recognise the right of the unborn child not to be deprived of its natural development and to respect its right to life;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Calls on the Member States and the EU to protect the woman and the unborn child so that they can continue the pregnancy independently of adverse circumstances and with the support of institutions and mechanisms that can be established under the rule of law in defence of individuals, including family- defence policies;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Calls on the Member States to recognise the close bond between mother and child resulting intrauterine life and the medical, legal and existential dilemmas arising from surrogacy;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls upon the Member States to combat physical and verbal abuse, including gynaecological and obstetric violence, which constitute forms of gender-based violence;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the EU to propose that the unborn child has full legal personality in national laws so that it has full protection of its human rights;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 436 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Urges the Member States to require compliance with the human right of non-discrimination against the unborn child; calls on the Member States to reject explicit eugenic practices resulting from embryonic genetic selection;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 438 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Urges the Member States to propose specific programmes to provide care and attention for parents suffering with the pregnancy of a child with malformations by giving them the necessary medical attention and extraordinary human and psychological support to enable them to cope with this uncertain situation with the peace and serenity of love;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 441 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 d (new)
16d. Urges the Member States to protect the right of every child to have a father and mother and to know their identity;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 450 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7
SRHR as pillars of gender equality, democracy and the elimination of gender- based violencHealth, sexuality and affection as foundations of life
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 451 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Urges Member States to fight sexual discrimination whereby fathers have no legal right to protect the life of their unborn child, or even to know of their existence, leading to great enmity between the sexes, and an increased risk of intimate partner violence;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 453 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls upon the Member States to exercise their competence in SRHR by striving to protect human rights, specifically the right to health, and implement a wide range of SRH services, ensuring that the principle of non- retrogression is respecdeleted;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 461 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on Member States to reassess the unfettered access to abortion as a form of birth control, when serious demographic decline, women's mental and physical health, harmony between the sexes and the healing not harming role of our medical professions are all at serious risk; further encourages investment in adoption services which brings untold benefits to childless couples, and relief for an unexpectedly pregnant mother;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 464 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Member States to exercise their competence in the area of health and to commit to upholding human rights, and in particular to prioritise the commitment to defending life;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Calls upon the Commissioner for Democracy and Demography to take a human-rights-based approach to tackling demographic challenges, ensurrecognise the dramatic demographic situation ing that every EU resident can fully realise their SRHR, and to confront those who instrumentalise SRHR in order to undermine EU values and democracye EU resulting from a demographic crisis and the undervaluation of fatherhood and family; calls for the restoration of the traditional values of the EU;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 477 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls upon the Commissioner for Health and Food Safety to promote and protect SRHR and to include them in the different dimensions of human healthe, next EU public health strategyamely: physical, spiritual, psychological, emotional, social and emotional as an intrinsically linked whole;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 483 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls upon the Commissioner for Equality to proremotve and protect SRHR and to include them y reference to gender equality which aims to include the gender perspective that, far from affirming the nsext EU gender equality strategual difference between men and women, accentuates the conflict of personal identity;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 489 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Calls upon the Commissioner for International Partnerships to uphold the European Consensus on Development and the SDGs, in particular targets 3.7 and 5.6, to ensure that SRHR remain a development priority in all EU external activities;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 495 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Calls upon the Commission to strengthen its actions to counter the backlash against women’s rights;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM