You can read it here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\nThe document ensures that women have a recognized right to access to health, which also includes “sexual and reproductive health”, in which abortion supposedly plays a fundamental role in guaranteeing the “bodily autonomy of women and girls.” Paragraph 33 calls on member states to “guarantee universal access to safe and legal abortion.”<\/p>\n
Paragraph 34 requires them to decriminalize it, and eliminate and fight the obstacles that limit its practice. It also and urges the EU to integrate all “sexual and reproductive rights, including the right to abortion” into its next health strategy.<\/p>\n
Paragraph 35 requests that the legislation of the member states be reviewed to ensure that any abortion requested by a woman can be performed “in early pregnancy and, when needed, beyond”, since its “total ban can be considered an act of gender violence.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition, in three paragraphs (36-38), the text regrets that governments allow doctors, professionals and health institutions to refuse to perform abortions “on the basis of the so-called conscience clause”, which is based on “personal beliefs”, and demands that “effective regulatory and enforcement measures be implemented” to prevent it, since \u2013 it says \u2013 “its exercise violates the rights of women.”<\/p>\n
“Pregnant men” and gender, a lot of gender<\/strong><\/p>\nThe approved report also embraces the ideological perspective of gender, uses this and other related concepts as if they were consolidated and accepted terms in the legal order of all member states, which is still far from reality.<\/p>\n
In paragraph \u201cN\u201d, it states, for example, that \u201cin certain circumstances transgender men and non-binary persons may also undergo pregnancy and should, in such cases, benefit from measures for pregnancy and birth-related care without discrimination on the basis of their gender identity. Confused? In reality, “transgender men” are women who claim to be men.<\/p>\n
Paragraph 72 calls for \u201can intersectional approach to be used to ensure that women and girls (both transgender and cisgender) non-binary persons, lesbian, bisexual and intersex women have equal access to sexual and reproductive health services and rights.\u201d<\/p>\n
The report also says that it does not consider right the definition of infertility given by the World Health Organization (WHO), because \u201cencompass the reality of lesbian and bisexual women, as well as transgender persons, in same-sex couples, or single women\u201d who may not be able to demonstrate their ‘infertility’ and therefore, have their access to assisted reproductive techniques denied.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, it urges Member States to guarantee “universal access” to comprehensive sexuality education “for all primary and secondary school pupils, as well as for out-of-school minors”, characterized by “a rights-based and gender-focused approach\u201d(Paragraphs 26 and \u201cQ\u201d).<\/p>\n
In the hands of barbarians<\/strong><\/p>\nSpanish MEP Jorge Buxad\u00e9, head of the VOX delegation in the EP, stressed that the result of the vote takes the EU away from its founding values \u200b\u200band the and gives it into the hands of barbarians who consider abortion a right.<\/p>\n
Polish MEP Jadwiga Wi\u015bniewska (PiS) declared that the approved resolution violates the fundamental right from which all other rights derive and infringes the competence of Member States, setting a very serious precedent that puts in danger the rule of law in the EU.<\/p>\n
After the vote, Mati\u0107 commented that the approval of the report “marks a new era in the European Union and the first real resistance to a regressive agenda that has trampled on women’s rights in Europe for years.”<\/p>\n
The affirmation of the Croatian politician is significant, because at the opening of the debate that preceded the vote, he assured that the motion for a resolution “did not deal with abortion” as it was said by, according to him, “fundamentalists financed by millions of euros” from the United States and Russia.<\/p>\n
In 2013, MEP Edite Estrela tried to pass a similar resolution, but the EP rejected it and recognized that the issue of abortion was the exclusive competence of the Member States. Mati\u0107 recognizes that his initiative is heir to that of Estrela and hopes that, now ratified by the plenary, it will overturn the restrictions imposed on abortion throughout Europe.<\/p>\n
On the same day that the Mati\u0107 Report was voted on, during the debate on the Climate Neutrality Law, Finnish MEP Laura Huhtasaari emphatically warned: \u201cif tomorrow this Parliament determines that Finnish forests will no longer be ours but the EU’s, that is going to be the day when we leave it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Well, it seems that the time has come for member countries to realize that children are worth more than trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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