Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-03-09-Speech-3-540-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2011-03-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:16th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (Geneva, 28 February - 25 March 2011) (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20110309.23.3-540-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2011-03-09-Speech-3-541-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Gay Mitchell2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, I welcome the opportunity to participate in this debate and can I say at the outset that I appreciate the briefing arranged by the High Representative yesterday on the issues surrounding Libya. Six million Jews were murdered in the Second World War here in Europe. Between the two World Wars – the First World War and the Second World War – 60 million Europeans were killed, leaving aside the people from all other parts of the world who died. According to a recent edition of magazine, there is a deficit of 100 million women because of gender-based abortion. This is not to do with abortion because a woman’s life is in danger, or because she is in danger of having a back-street abortion. It is because she is a woman. Yesterday was Women’s Day. This was not raised here. When is political correctness going to be overcome, so that we can have respectful debates here, so that we do not turn our heads the other way, as happened in the first half of the last century, so that we raise these issues, so that we ask why this is? This House disgraced itself. It voted down an amendment not to fund infanticide. Not to fund coercive abortion. How in the name of God could we vote down something like that? I am sick of this political correctness that does not allow debate on issues in this House in a respectful manner that allows different views to be expressed. I want to know from the High Representative if you are you going to raise this issue with the UN? May I say in conclusion that I find the attitude and some of the decisions of the Court of Human Rights here in Strasbourg, which is not an institution of the European Union, absolutely extraordinary. When are we going to be able to discuss this issue? Why were there no women yesterday who asked about the missing 100 million women who have been terminated because they were women? It is wrong and there should be no disagreement in this House on that issue in particular."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue card question under Rule 149(8))"1 "Gay Mitchell (PPE )."1 "The Economist"1
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