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"According to the World Health Organisation, the definition of the term “Reproductive Health” includes the term “fertility regulation” which contains “interrupting unwanted pregnancies”, i.e. abortion on demand. In the interest of subsidiarity, paragraphs and related amendments dealing with reproductive health should not be included in an EP document, unless clearly and honestly defined. There is a worldwide commonly agreed terminology which is “Primary Health Care” defined at the WHO conference in Alma Ata, 1978, which deals with Women and Mother’s Health without including abortion on demand.
Furthermore, in paragraph 18, the use of language leaves the meaning unclear and open to interpretation; prevention of “girl pregnancies” has the unfortunate double meaning of specifically seeking to prevent pregnancies where the conceived child is a girl. Ambiguities such as this should not be allowed to stand in a report conceived as instructions for the negotiating team in New York for the remainder of the Beijing +5 session.
Regarding paragraph 26, which states that “the respect of women's rights should be one of the main conditions for the granting of aid and should be closely monitored in all external relations and cooperation”, the European Union must not tie any specifications to its distribution of aid nor impose any conditions for the reception of aid amongst women, realising that women are extremely vulnerable to the use of coercion and coercive techniques in order to realise their basic human rights such as shelter, nutrition, education and basic health care. The EU must exercise extreme caution that current definitions should be consistent with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as women are not a minority group."@en1
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