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"Mr President, we must congratulate the authors of the two reports, which are crucial and a credit to Parliament's work.
The proposed measures, which we shall support, aim to preserve the integrity of those who need us most, namely children. They represent the future of this world, they are also the most vulnerable and, I regret to say, they have to suffer from the selfishness of adults even before they are born, when they cannot even plead for mercy as they have no voice and no real identity.
We shall support these two reports by voting in favour of the amendments that go further than the Council proposal. We would particularly like to say that these are crimes for which we should show no complacency, and that these measures must be applied in cases where the children involved are under 16 years of age, which is what we voted for in committee.
In parallel with these provisions, we should combat the genuine, deep-rooted causes of this evil, one of which is the lax attitude of most European nations towards pornography. Under the pretext of freedom of the press or freedom of the individual, we are allowing a minority to distribute, via films, books, magazines, the
system and, increasingly now over the Internet, a vast library of pornographic material, which scorns the dignity of human beings and, quite freely, shamelessly and disrespectfully, stimulates the sexual instinct in an anarchical manner.
Taking pre-emptive action in order to combat this crime is part of a policy that is centred on the family and which encourages proper integration of children within society. Experience tells us that children who are properly integrated within a family are afforded better protection from the evils of today’s society, such as drugs, the trafficking of human beings and pornography. They are also in a better position to resist these evils if they do encounter them."@en1
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