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"Exceptionally, I am not addressing you, Mr President, but the women who are listening to us. If European policy is moving further and further away from the citizen, that is not true for women’s rights. Women are here and are placing hopes in us that we cannot disappoint.
Today I am proud of the European Union and proud of its opposition to the United States’ amendment, when it tried to restrict the right to abortion at the UN last week. My thoughts go particularly to Simone Veil, who was president of this Parliament and who gave France a law allowing the voluntary termination of pregnancy. Thank you, Madam, for your courage because you had a lot of mud thrown at you. Today there are people who march through the streets shouting about your law: ‘Thirty years is enough’. For all the women who have known the distress of an unwanted pregnancy I say: 30 years is too little, because abortion is becoming taboo again! Thank you, Madam.
All of us women together, whatever our political parties and convictions, will continue your battle to drive back fundamentalism. And I will say to Mr Libicki, who was worried about post-abortion depression, that he should look at post-natal depression. That is the advice of a woman and a psychologist!"@en1
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