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"Madam President, I would like to thank Mr Tarabella and his colleagues on the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality for a good report.
I would like to highlight two things in particular. I hope that plenary supports the importance of paternity leave. Paternity leave not only sends an important signal that children are the responsibility of both parents, but also has other positive consequences. Studies show that fathers who have taken paternity leave continue to take greater responsibility for the home, family and children in later life. In other words, getting fathers involved creates a sound basis for further equality work.
The second point that I would like to raise, and which I support, is that women must at last be granted the power to decide over their own bodies, their sexuality and their reproduction. Giving women that power means that when children are born, they are wanted and are genuinely able to develop – something that is every child’s basic right. We want to see an end to women’s lives being harmed, to the fact that women are dying even today because of illegal abortions. Give women the right of self-determination – not just when it comes to finances, politics and society, but also over their own bodies."@en1
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