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". – Because Amendment No 53 was not carried I cannot support this important compulsory regulation in the area of development aid.
The rapporteur stated in an Irish radio programme on 19 November 2002 that through this regulation, EU taxpayers would provide money to fund abortions in the poorest countries and that this was within the legal rights of the EU.
Whilst ensuring women the highest level of medical care, and prevention of maternal mortality and morbidity, Amendment No 53 would have clarified the intentions of Parliament, the Commission and Council. It would also have protected the Irish constitutional position, and reassured the representatives of candidate and Least Developed Countries, deeply concerned that some terms within this regulation could allow the EU to establish a legal competence in the area of development that it does not have within the Union.
Due to the doubt cast by the rapporteur's comments, and in the absence of Amendment No 53, the Irish Government, which has stated that ‘regulations regarding abortion are solely for individual countries to decide’, must ensure at Council level that the draft Regulation in its current form does not permit the use of taxpayers' money to fund abortion in the poorest countries."@en1
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