165 Amendments of Margarita DE LA PISA CARRIÓN related to 2020/2215(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
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— 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,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 5 #
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Amendment 6 #
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- having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
Amendment 7 #
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Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
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— having regard to the Convention of 4 November 1950 for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
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— having regard to the European Social Charter of 18 October 1961,
Amendment 13 #
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Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
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— 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’),
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
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— 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’,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 25 #
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Amendment 26 #
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Amendment 27 #
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Amendment 29 #
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— having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
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— 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,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
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— 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’,
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
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— 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'),
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
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— having regard to the Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons (Resolution 2856 (XXVI) of the UN General Assembly of 20 December 1971),
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
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— 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),
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 45 #
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Amendment 46 #
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Amendment 47 #
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Amendment 48 #
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Amendment 49 #
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Amendment 50 #
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Amendment 53 #
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Amendment 57 #
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Amendment 59 #
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Amendment 62 #
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Amendment 63 #
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Amendment 67 #
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Amendment 68 #
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Amendment 70 #
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Amendment 71 #
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Amendment 73 #
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Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
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- 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,
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
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— having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 10 December 2013 on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (2013/2040(INI)),
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
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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;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
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;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the defence of life and health, being core values, define human freedom and dignity;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
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;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas the logic of the majority does not legitimise the ethics of any practice such as abortion;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
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;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A f (new)
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;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A g (new)
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;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A h (new)
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;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
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;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
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;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
B c. whereas the binary sexual difference between men and women is necessarily complementary in creating a new life;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
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;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
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;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
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;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
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;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)
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;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
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;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
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;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
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;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the unavailability of unbiased scientifically accurate information violates the rights of individuals to make informed choices about their own SRHR;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
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;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
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;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
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;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
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;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
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;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
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;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
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Recital J
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
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;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
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;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
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;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K c (new)
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;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
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;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L b (new)
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;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
M a. whereas the image of motherhood and the family has been devalued in our society;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M b (new)
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;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
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Recital N
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
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;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N b (new)
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;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
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
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
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;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
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;
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new)
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;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 e (new)
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;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 f (new)
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;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 g (new)
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;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
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;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 5
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
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;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
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;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
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;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
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;
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
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;
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading b
Subheading b
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading b
Subheading b
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
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;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
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;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
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;
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Urges the Member States to investigate the reason for the high rates of infertility and the business surrounding it;
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading c
Subheading c
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading c a (new)
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;
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
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;
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on the Member States to recognise that the concept of reproductive health must necessarily be linked to fertility;
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Urges the Member States to reiterate the right of every woman to continue her pregnancy;
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 d (new)
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;
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 e (new)
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;
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 f (new)
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;
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 g (new)
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;
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 h (new)
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;
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading d
Subheading d
Amendment 416 #
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 affordable, evidence-based maternity carepregnancy and maternity monitoring and support;
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
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;
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
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;
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
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;
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
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;
Amendment 436 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
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;
Amendment 438 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
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;
Amendment 441 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 d (new)
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;
Amendment 450 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7
Subheading 7
Amendment 451 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Amendment 453 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 461 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
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;
Amendment 464 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
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;
Amendment 477 #
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 different dimensions of human healthe, next EU public health strategyamely: physical, spiritual, psychological, emotional, social and emotional as an intrinsically linked whole;
Amendment 483 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
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;
Amendment 489 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 495 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22