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". It is a good thing that the European Union should help the developing countries take care of their populations’ health. Aid does not, however, mean imposing our European models on countries with different cultures and traditions. It is morally unacceptable to make our aid conditional upon denying nations’ identity and upon their having to adopt our conception of family planning. Moreover, setting abortion up as a new method of contraception is out of the question. That, however, is what this report is leading up to, even if Mrs Sandbaek says it is not. Abortion is a crime that kills the child and destroys the mother. By offering women abortion as their only option, rather than helping them, a further trauma is added to their difficulties. That is why I am in favour of the amendments aimed at developing a policy for receiving and supporting mothers to be who are in distress, with a view to supporting them in choosing to have their babies. That is how it will be possible to provide them with the psychological and material aid that they need. That is also why I shall vote against this report which, far from helping populations in difficulty, will succeed only in adding to their feelings of helplessness."@en1

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