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"It is hard to understand what has turned the Sandbæk report into such a bone of contention, for the need to improve health services and infrastructure in the countries concerned could easily have been the subject of genuine consensus.
It is just that there is terrible doubt hanging over the rapporteur’s and the Commission’s true intentions concerning recourse to abortion, a measure which would therefore be funded by the European taxpayer. Once such a measure is provided for, it becomes legitimate, whereas stances on this subject are very diverse and, above all, irreconcilable. To institute at Community level a policy rejected by a number of our Member States, or in other words to impose at European level choices about which our respective populations have reservations, or to which they are even hostile, is unworthy of a democratic assembly.
As for the self-styled compromise that has emerged from the relevant parliamentary committee, one might have expected better than a suspect accumulation of evasions that has conscientiously set aside all attempts to bend the wording in the direction of human dignity, namely compatibility between women’s health and children’s lives.
With only the caricature of a choice before us – either we vote for or against – we choose to embrace what amounts to a simple precautionary principle by voting against this report."@en1
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