4
Jul
2022
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US Supreme Court decision to overturn abortion rights in the United States and the need to safeguard abortion rights and Women’s health in the EU (debate)
Mr President, how many times have I stood here and pointed out that the right to safe and legal abortion is a fundamental right and that this is a necessary condition for the self-determination, the right to health and the physical integrity of women? If you ask me: way too often. Time and again we are dealing with extremists who have the unhealthy need to interfere with the bodies of women, who want to go back in time, who want women to go back to that hanger. The extremists in Europe have gathered in the so-called ‘Agenda Europe’, where they set out their destructive plans and are already implementing them. Also here. Consider the de facto ban on abortion in Poland. Consider the anti-LGBTI legislation in Hungary. These are plans against women, against the LGBTI+ community and against human rights. That's unacceptable. We must make this impossible, and that is why we must enshrine the right to abortion in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Because these are extremists, from the US to the European Parliament, and they have nothing to look for here, nothing to find of our fundamental rights.