25 Amendments of Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ related to 2013/2040(INI)
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas women and men should have complethe freedom to make their own informed and responsible choices as regards their sexual and reproductive health, and all the corresponding methods and possibilities should be available to them;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas there exists a disparity in the standard of sexual and reproductive health between and within Member States and inequality of sexual and reproductive rights enjoyed by women, and in particular European women experience huge inequalities in terms of access to reproductive health services, contraception and abortion, according to their income and/or their country of residence;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas studies have shown that comprehensive sexuality education and high-quality family planning services does increase the likelihood of responsible behaviour upon first and subsequent sexual activity;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas attention should be devoted not only to terminating unwanted pregnancies but also, and particularly, to preventing unwanted pregnancies, and responsibility in this regard rests on both men and women; whereas in preventing unwanted pregnancies it is extremely important to have good information regarding sexuality, responsibility towards others in relationships, health and the various ways of preventing pregnancy, and easy access to all methods of contraception;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J b (new)
Recital J b (new)
Jb. whereas unsafe abortions seriously endanger women's physical and mental health and may place their lives in danger;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that even though it is a competence of Member States to formulate and implement policies on SRHR, the EU can exercise policy-making competence in relation to strategies and initiatives in the area of public health and of non- discrimination, and support better implementation of sexual and reproductive rights and promote the exchange of best practice;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the governments of the Member States and the candidate countries to develop a high-quality national policy on sexual and reproductive health, in cooperation with pluralist civil society organisations, providing comprehensive information concerning effective and responsible methods of family planning, ensuring equal access to a range of high-quality contraceptive methods as well as fertility awareness;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Expresses concern about the restrictions on access to sexual and reproductive health services and contraceptives in the accession countries; calls on the governments of those countries to adopt legislation and policies that ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health services, and systematically to gather the necessary data to improve the situation as regards sexual and reproductive health;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on Member States to work with the Commission and the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) and civil society to design a European strategy for the promotion of SRHR, and support the elaboration and implementation of comprehensive national strategies for sexual and reproductive health; suggests that the EIGE be empowered to collect and analyse data and best practices, create a Europe-wide database of sexual and reproductive health statistics and draw up a guide to best practices and positive experiences in this field;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that it is vitally important that women should have free access to annual gynaecological checkups and mammographies, and it is therefore unacceptable for Member States to reduce such services on the pretext of the crisis and budget cuts;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Recommends that Member States should guarantee the best possible access to health services in the field of sexual and reproductive health, contraceptives and the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases for people living in poverty and social marginalisation and other vulnerable groups such as people with disabilities, minorities and immigrants, as well as young people;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that effective family planning requires easy access to the various methods of contraception at affordable prices;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Insists that clandestine abortions seriously endanger women's physical and mental health and may place their lives in danger;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Deplores the situation of inequality and discrimination that arises in countries with no easy access to abortion, since women wishing to terminate their pregnancies are divided into two classes: first class, who can afford to travel and pay fees to abort freely and legally, with full health safeguards, in any European country where abortion is accessible and legal, and second class, who have no economic resources and are forced to seek clandestine abortions as if they were criminals, at serious risk to their health and lives;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Calls on the governments of the Member States and the candidate countries to refrain from prosecuting women who have undergone illegal abortions;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Stresses that it is essential, in order to prevent unwanted pregnancies, to provide accessible and free family planning services that guarantee unbiased, scientific and clearly understandable information and counselling on sexual and reproductive health, and therefore calls on the governments of the Member States and the candidate countries to provide specialised sexual and reproductive health services which include high-quality professional advice and counselling adapted to the needs of specific groups ( immigrants, minorities, people with disabilities, young people, marginalised people, etc.), provided by a trained, multidisciplinary staff; underlines that advice and counselling must be confidential and non-judgmental and that in case of legitimate conscientious objection of the provider, referral to other service providers must take place;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States to ensure universal access to comprehensive SRHR information, education and services; urges them to ensure that this information covers a variety of modern methods of family planning and counselling, skilled birth attendance, and the right to access gynaecological and obstetric emergency care, that it also covers sex-change operations, and that it is non-judgmental and scientifically accurate about abortion services;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses that sexuality education must include the fight against stereotypes and prejudices and all forms of gender violence, shed light on gender and sexual orientation discrimination, and structural barriers to substantive equality, as well as emphasise mutual respect and shared responsibility;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the governments of the Member States and the accession countries to make use of various methods in reaching young people: through formal and informal education, publicity campaigns, social marketing for condom use and the use of other methods of contraception, and initiatives such as confidential telephone helplines; stresses the importance of active participation by young people in the development, implementation and evaluation of sexuality education programmes in cooperation with other parties, particularly parents, and the intervention of peer educators in sexuality education who will take account of the needs of specific groups (young people belonging to minorities or living in marginal areas, young people with disabilities, immigrants, etc.);
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls on the governments of the Member States and the candidate countries to maintain and increase the level of information made available to the general public (especially to the most peripheral sections of society which have greatest difficulty in securing access to information) on HIV/AIDS infection and other sexually transmitted diseases, the ways in which they are transmitted and the behaviour which facilitates transmission;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Calls on the Member States and the candidate countries to guarantee that a woman who has become pregnant as a result of rape, as well as women in cases where there is a serious risk to their health or life, can undergo an abortion with full health and legal safeguards, without restrictions of any kind;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 21 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Stresses the importance of education and awareness-raising in the area of sexual and reproductive health as an integral part of women’s health agenda in developing countries;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Urges the CommissionEU to ensure that European development cooperation adopts a human rights-based approach and that it has a strong and explicit focus, and concrete targets on SRHR, with measures such as proper access to medical resources, information and education on health and sexual rights, family planning services, safe abortion, contraceptives, prevention of and the fight against HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, free choice of individual sexual orientation, and the elimination of practices such as female genital mutilation, early and/or forced marriage, gender-selective abortion and forced sterilisation;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Notes that the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), adopted in Cairo in 1994, recognised that sexual and reproductive health and rights are fundamental to achieving sustainable development;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Urges the EU and its Member States to ensure that the ICPD+20 operational review process results in a comprehensive review of all aspects related to the full enjoyment of sexual and reproductive rights, that it reaffirms a strong and progressive approach to sexual and reproductive rights for all that is consistent with international human rights standards and that it increases the accountability of governments to achieve the agreed objectives; calls, in particular, on the EU and its Member States to ensure that the review process is conducted in a participatory manner and that it provides an opportunity for different stakeholders, including civil society as well as women, adolescents and young people, to participate in a meaningful manner; recalls that the framework for such a review must be based on human rights and have a specific focus on sexual and reproductive rights;