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Mr President, it is hard to know what to say about women’s issues within the one minute of speaking time available to me in this debate. As a woman and a doctor, however, I should like to protest most strongly in this House against the tendency to treat women as objects, to subject women to aggressive masculinisation and to use the phrase ‘reproductive health’ to refer to motherhood. This is clearly a phrase that should be used in relation to animals, not people.
A woman’s dignity and mystery are revealed through her role as a mother, which need not be understood in a strictly physical sense. Emotionally healthy women who have not been corrupted are full of warmth. They are by nature emotionally sensitive, they care about other people and they are prepared to make sacrifices. Their vocation includes the home, the family, marriage, children and work, but it does not include a power struggle with men. I would especially call on feminist organisations to respect women’s dignity and femininity, which is an expression of their spiritual wealth."@en1
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