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2022/02/15
Dossiers: 2021/2181(INI)

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Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas surrogacy constitutes a serious breach of human rights, as underlined by various sources of international law, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which affirms the principle of upholding human dignity as a primary objective and excludes the legitimacy of any commercial practices involving trade in human beings, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which requires states to uphold the right of children not to be deprived of the elements of their identity and their right to protection against all forms of economic exploitation, Article 3 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights which contains a prohibition on making the human body and its parts as such a source of financial gain’, the Oviedo Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, which states that the human body and its parts shall not, as such, give rise to financial gain, and the European Parliament resolution on priorities and outline of a new EU policy framework to fight violence against women (2010/2209 (INI)), which calls on Member States to ‘acknowledge the serious problem of surrogacy which constitutes an exploitation of the female body and her reproductive organs';

2021/10/15
Committee: FEMM

Simona BALDASSARRE, Isabella TOVAGLIERI

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Condemns the practice of surrogacy, which undermines the human dignity of women by exploiting their bodies and reproductive functions and reducing the human person to a commodity; calls for greater guarantees for women's rights, particularly those of vulnerable women in developing countries; believes that the practice of gestation for others should be addressed through international legislative instruments for the protection of human rights;

2021/10/15
Committee: FEMM

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