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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, first of all I thank the rapporteur. Turning to the Commissioner, I think it is appropriate to point out that this ambitious report, which combines a gender approach with health and the state of our health systems, deserves to be placed in the political spotlight, including by the Commission.
The Commission should make its voice heard and, based on a careful analysis of the various national health systems in the Europe of 25, tell us what its overall approach is, how it intends to include prevention and treatment in all the Union’s policies and, above all, what its assessment is of Europe. Once we know that, and after the debate with Parliament, we shall be in a position to say what progress has been made in this continent, which is not merely a series of misfortunes, but a part of the world where women live better lives than in other areas of the planet.
The Commission should also specify the challenges facing us in building a new welfare state commensurate with women’s needs. Europe will not progress without women; that is a political fact that I hope even the Commission will not forget.
I am therefore grateful for this report, but I must admit that I have asked for a separate vote on three items: recital U and paragraphs 15 and 10, because they are superficial or poorly formulated and, despite the rapporteur’s very good intentions, they are liable to be damaging because they are not comprehensible.
Recital U and paragraph 15 state that ovarian stimulation as such may endanger a woman’s health. That statement is false and may, without saying as much, lead people to condemn stem cell research on the basis of some presumed gender discrimination. We do not need obscurantist attitudes!
Europe needs to move forwards on a firm scientific footing. Paragraph 10, at least as it has been translated into certain languages, calls not for human cloning to be ruled out of European programmes, as would be correct, but for the practice to be stopped or suspended. Europe does not finance any programmes of that kind, and therefore the idea that one might say or think that we are trying to stop therapeutic cloning should be ruled out."@en1
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