Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-09-16-Speech-4-020"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2004-09-16"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Dutch boat belonging to the 'Women on Waves' association2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040916.1.4-020"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-09-16-Speech-4-0212
lpv:speaker	lp:Eva-Britt Svensson2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Vänsterpartiet (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; IMCO (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; FEMM (2004-07-27--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with Israel (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, as all my fellow MEPs know, women have had the right to vote and the power to take decisions concerning themselves and their assets for more than a century. In addition to accepting responsibility for their own lives, women have had responsibility for their children’s lives too. In spite of the fact that women have been empowered in legislation etc for such a long time, we women are clearly still incapacitated when it comes to taking decisions concerning our own bodies and sexuality. There is no other way of interpreting the Portuguese Government’s action in connection with ‘Women on Waves’. The action taken by the Portuguese Government is not only a declaration of women’s incapacity but also breaches the European Parliament’s resolution to promote information campaigns concerning sexual and reproductive rights. I do not want only to debate women’s rights, but also to put children at the centre of this debate. Taking a different view from certain participants in this debate, with their lack of empathy and understanding, I wish to say that children’s lives are too important simply to depend upon chance. Children have an unrestricted right to be welcomed into the world with the prospects of a good life. I do not usually go in for conspiracy theories, but I cannot refrain from reflecting upon whether the action taken by the Portuguese Government does not in large part have to do with the fact that it is precisely women and women’s own organisations that are at issue. If this vessel, that is the subject of our debate, had been called ‘Men for violence as a means of conflict resolution’, would it, I wonder, not, in all likelihood, have been permitted to enter the port? If the Council and the Commission are serious in their talk of a women’s Europe, they cannot refrain from taking issue with the action taken by the Portuguese Government. We must now side with women and children."@en1

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