5 Amendments of Eva-Britt SVENSSON related to 2008/2115(INI)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission, proceeding from World Health Organisation recommendations, to present a report on the state of women’s and children’s health so as to enable measures to focus on various target groups and analyses to be brought to bear on the accessibility and possible costs of services and their impact on different social groups in different regions;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Draws the attention of the Commission and the Member States to Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which calls for legislative bodies to treat the interests of children as a primary consideration, one way being to make the necessary provision for maternity leave, taking into account in particular the effect that breastfeeding has on an infant’s mental and physical developmentparental leave;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Deplores the fact that young girls and women are subjected to increasingly effective and targeted advertising for alcohol, inter alia;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the need to increase public awareness of reproductive and sexual health in order to prevent unwanted pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and reduce the social and health problems caused by infertilityfor adequate sex education in schools; stresses the need for reproductive health through access to safe contraceptives and women's right of determination over their own bodies, such as the right to abortion;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Deplores the fact that risks associated with the health behaviour of pregnant women (high rates of induced and repeated abortions, smoking during pregnancy), mothers’ levels of education, and infant mortality after the 28th day remain closely linked, that teenage pregnancies and deliveries continue to pose a greater risk to newborns’ health, and that medical conditions among newborns have become more frequent;