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71 Amendments of Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA related to 2020/2215(INI)

Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
- having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 36 a (new)
- having regard to the FEMM committee decision to work against pro- life civil society organisations by pursuing an Initiative report on foreign funding of so-called anti-choice groups,
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to all aspects of sexuality and reproduction, not merely the absence of dysfunction, infirmity or mortality, and whereas all individuals have a right to make decisions governing their bodies8 ; _________________ 8 Guttmacher-Lancet Commission, Executive Summary on sexual and reproductive health and rights, The Lancet, London, 2018, https://www.guttmacher.org/guttmacher- lancet-commission/accelerate-progress- executive-summary, sexuality and intimacy belong in the private sphere;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the UN convention of the Rights of the Child notes that, "the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth", and that this can must include the primary right, that of the right to life, without which all other human rights are void;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas so-called sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) are recognnot established as human rights in international and European human rights law10 ; _________________ 10Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in Europe, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 2017, https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/ women-s-sexual-and-reproductive-rights- in-europe.; whereas the right to integrity as enshrined in article 3 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights should not be subject to misleading interpretation;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas violations of SRHR constitute breaches of human rights, specifically the right to life, physical and mental integrity, equality, non- discrimination, health and education; whereas violations of women’s SRHR are a form of violence against women and girls;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas the unavailability of unbiased scientifically accurate information violates the rights of individuals to make informed choices about their own SRHR;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
G a. whereas if abortion proponents are unclear on whether a fetus in utero is a human being, they can consult any medical text book;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas the success of comprehensive sexuality education facilitates informed reproductive choicein preventing unwanted pregnancies is not scientifically proven, as it can lead to earlier and increased sexual activity amongst minors;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Calls upon the EU, its bodies and agencies to support and promote access to SRHR services and calls upon the Member States to ensure access to a full range of SRHR, and to remove all barriers impeding full access to SRHR;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Invites the Member States to ensure policies for the defence of life in line with the provisions defending human rights enshrined in the United Nations Charter and the related legislation, treaties and conventions;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Recalls that the widely accepted constitutional right to freedom of conscience must be respected when any individual considers that the most intimate convictions of their conscience are being violated;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Recalls the timeless tradition of the Hippocratic Oath, whose principles include the defence of life, worded as follows: 'I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody, no matter how much I am asked to do so, nor will I take any measures to that effect; similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy. On the contrary, in purity and holiness I will guard my life and my art';
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Urges the Member States to draw up reports expressing the harmful effects of the abortion process on women on an emotional, psychological, emotional and spiritual level with a view to safeguarding their mental, physical and psychological health;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1 e. Invites the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to respect the Member States' internal rules on health-related rights and to draw attention to process for managing pain and suffering based on human love, solidarity and charity towards people;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1 f. Upholds the universal human right to conscientious objection together with the responsibility of the state to ensure that patients are able to access lawful medical care in a timely manner, in particular in cases of emergency pre- natal and maternal health care; recalls that no person, hospital or institution should be coerced, held liable or discriminated against in any manner because of a refusal to perform, accept, assist with or submit to an abortion or any act which could cause the death of a human foetus or embryo, for any reason;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Encourages Member States to exercise their exclusive competence under the principle of subsidiarity in matters concerning health and sexuality, striving to protect human rights, in particular the right to health, and ensuring that the principle of non-regression is upheld;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. In accordance with the principle of subsidiarity and in line with national competences, calls upon the Member States to safeguard the right of all persons to make their own informed choices with regard to SRHR;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Calls upon the Member States to address the challenges in accessing or exercising SRHR and ensure that no person is left behind by being unable to exercise their right to health;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that all policies relating to SRHR should be founded on reliable and objective evidence from organisations such as WHO, other UN agencies and the Council of Europe;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls for the recognition of access to various sources of truthful and scientific information that can inform debate and thinking in respect of the WHO's guidelines and promote scientific debate on such sensitive issues as the right to life with the diversity of opinions and viewpoints that these matters demand;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Reaffirms the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights call on its member states11to guarantee sufficient budgetary provision for SRHR and ensure the availability of adequate human resources; _________________ 11Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights in Europe, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe, 2017, https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/ women-s-sexual-and-reproductive-rights- in-europedeleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Sexual and reproductive health as an essential component of good healthWomen's health, sexuality and motherhood
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls upon the Member States to establish effective strategies and monitoring programmes that guarantee access to a full range of SRHR services;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Member States to establish protocols for monitoring the optimal health of women at various stages of their lives;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that all medical interventions related to SRHR must be undertaken with fully informed consent;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls that any health-related medical intervention and treatment must be accompanied by comprehensive information provided by a specialist medical practitioner setting out the procedure to be followed and the detailed risks and benefits, and formalised through informed consent;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the Member States to ensure access to scientifically accurate and comprehensive sexuality education for all primary and secondary school children in line with WHO standards;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 338 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Member States to respect the right of parents to teach their own values and beliefs, provided that they are in strict compliance with the human rights enshrined in natural law and respect for life; to establish programmes consistent with children’s maturity at a given stage in their development, respecting their childhood innocence, purity and modesty and preventing early sexuality, which disorients children, including the threat of reprehensible situations such as paedophilia; to promote teaching of the free and conscious relationship between people based on the affection, love, responsibility and respect for intimacy that can give birth to a new life;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls upon the Member States to combat the spread of discriminatory and unsafe misinformation on SRHR;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls for recognition of access to various sources of truthful and scientific information that can inform debate and thinking in respect of the WHO's guidelines;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Member States to recognise the educational irresponsibility of the media in exposing children and young people to content that is not appropriate to their age, such as pornography;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Calls on the Member States to promote faith, culture and tradition as the bedrock of the European Union family;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading b
Modern contraception as a strategy for achieving gender equalitydeleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 355 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading b
Modern cContraception as a strategy for achieving gender equality
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 356 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Calls upon the Member States to ensure access to contraceptive methods, thereby safeguarding the fundamental right to health;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Member States to promote natural fertility recognition as an orderly way for people to have the greatest possible expression of propioceptive and ecological knowledge of their own body, as well as enabling them to make conscious, free and responsible decisions about their behaviour;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Urges the Member States to provide accurate information on the undesirable side-effects and effectiveness of contraceptive methods which encourage a mistaken perception of their fertility and lead them into irresponsible behaviour;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10c. Calls on the Member States to recognise that disconnecting sexual relations from their natural consequence of creating life trivialises them;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Calls upon the Member States to ensure that contraception is covered under national reimbursement schemes and healthcare policies and to recognise that this coverage should be extended to all people of reproductive age;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 372 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Urges the Member States to investigate the reason for the high rates of infertility and the business surrounding it;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading c
c) Safe and legal abortion care anchored in women’s health and rightsAbortion
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading c a (new)
Urges the Member States to ensure that abortion cannot in any way be regarded as a fundamental right or be assimilated to a human right;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Reaffirms that abortion must be a voluntary decision based on a woman’s request, given of her own free will, in accordance with medical standards based on WHO guidelines and calls upon the Member States to ensure access to safe and legal abortion;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Urges the Member States not to allow the concept of sexual and reproductive health to be used to refer to the practice of abortion;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls on the Member States to recognise that the concept of reproductive health must necessarily be linked to fertility;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Urges the Member States to reiterate the right of every woman to continue her pregnancy;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 d (new)
12d. Calls on the Member States not to contradict each other by supporting conflicting rights, such as the right to continue a pregnancy and the right to abortion;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 e (new)
12e. Urges the Member States to stress recognition of the role of fathers in decisions concerning their own children, especially when those children's lives are at stake;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 f (new)
12f. Calls on the Member States not to mask the nature of abortion by describing it as a procedure, when in fact it is nothing other than cruel, inhuman and degrading torture for both child and mother;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 391 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 g (new)
12g. Calls on the Member States to acknowledge that the right to patient autonomy can never constitute a form of aggression against their integrity, as is the case with abortion;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 h (new)
12h. Urges the Member States to require, in every single case, that informed consent is obtained by means of a doctor providing full and detailed information in which the procedure to be followed and the consequences of taking this irreversible decision are explained;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Member States to regulate obstacles to legal abortion and recalls that they have a responsibility to ensure that women have access to the rights afforded to them by law;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading d
d) Maternity care for all and the rights of the child
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Calls upon the Member States to adopt measures to ensure that all women have access to affordable, evidence-based maternity carepregnancy and maternity monitoring and support;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 420 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Urges the Member States to recognise the right of the unborn child not to be deprived of its natural development and to respect its right to life;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15b. Calls on the Member States and the EU to protect the woman and the unborn child so that they can continue the pregnancy independently of adverse circumstances and with the support of institutions and mechanisms that can be established under the rule of law in defence of individuals, including family- defence policies;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Calls on the Member States to recognise the close bond between mother and child resulting intrauterine life and the medical, legal and existential dilemmas arising from surrogacy;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 424 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Calls upon the Member States to combat physical and verbal abuse, including gynaecological and obstetric violence, which constitute forms of gender-based violence;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 435 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the EU to propose that the unborn child has full legal personality in national laws so that it has full protection of its human rights;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 436 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Urges the Member States to require compliance with the human right of non-discrimination against the unborn child; calls on the Member States to reject explicit eugenic practices resulting from embryonic genetic selection;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 438 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Urges the Member States to propose specific programmes to provide care and attention for parents suffering with the pregnancy of a child with malformations by giving them the necessary medical attention and extraordinary human and psychological support to enable them to cope with this uncertain situation with the peace and serenity of love;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 441 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 d (new)
16d. Urges the Member States to protect the right of every child to have a father and mother and to know their identity;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 450 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 7
SRHR as pillars of gender equality, democracy and the elimination of gender- based violencHealth, sexuality and affection as foundations of life
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 453 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls upon the Member States to exercise their competence in SRHR by striving to protect human rights, specifically the right to health, and implement a wide range of SRH services, ensuring that the principle of non- retrogression is respecdeleted;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 464 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls on the Member States to exercise their competence in the area of health and to commit to upholding human rights, and in particular to prioritise the commitment to defending life;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 469 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Calls upon the Commissioner for Democracy and Demography to take a human-rights-based approach to tackling demographic challenges, ensurrecognise the dramatic demographic situation ing that every EU resident can fully realise their SRHR, and to confront those who instrumentalise SRHR in order to undermine EU values and democracye EU resulting from a demographic crisis and the undervaluation of fatherhood and family; calls for the restoration of the traditional values of the EU;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 477 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls upon the Commissioner for Health and Food Safety to promote and protect SRHR and to include them in the different dimensions of human healthe, next EU public health strategyamely: physical, spiritual, psychological, emotional, social and emotional as an intrinsically linked whole;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 483 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Calls upon the Commissioner for Equality to proremotve and protect SRHR and to include them y reference to gender equality which aims to include the gender perspective that, far from affirming the nsext EU gender equality strategual difference between men and women, accentuates the conflict of personal identity;
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 489 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Calls upon the Commissioner for International Partnerships to uphold the European Consensus on Development and the SDGs, in particular targets 3.7 and 5.6, to ensure that SRHR remain a development priority in all EU external activities;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM
Amendment 495 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. Calls upon the Commission to strengthen its actions to counter the backlash against women’s rights;deleted
2020/12/14
Committee: FEMM