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Sexual Left Outraged Over Rejection by European Parliament </h2>
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<p><span style="font-size:10pt">WASHINGTON DC, December 13 (C-FAM) The
European left is outraged today as a controversial resolution went down
to a totally unexpected defeat in the European Parliament on Tuesday in
Brussels. Called the Estrela Report, the resolution called for a whole
host of “sexual and reproductive rights.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="http://www.turtlebayandbeyond.org/2013/abortion/european-parliament-extremist-sexual-health-and-rights-report-to-promote-compulsory-child-abuse/" target="_blank">Writing</a>
at the blog Turtle Bay and Beyond, European human rights lawyer JC von
Krempacresh said the non-binding Estrela report would have defined abortion
as a human right, a first in the European context, eliminate conscience
protection for medical personnel, federally fund abortion and
in-vitro-fertilization, and through “comprehensive sexuality education” <a style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent!important;border:medium none!important;display:inline!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;margin:0px!important;min-height:0px!important;min-width:0px!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;text-decoration:underline!important" title="Click to Continue > by CouponDropDown" id="_GPLITA_2" href="http://c-fam.org/en/issues/human-rights-system/7644-sexual-left-outraged-over-rejection-by-european-parliament#">begin<img style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline ! important; float: none ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" src="http://cdncache1-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png"></a> to teach toddlers about things like masturbation.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt">The report was first advanced in
October but was voted back to committee for revision. Even that was
hailed as a great defeat for the European sexual left. And European
pro-lifers celebrated understanding though the document would come back
which it did this week.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="font-size:10pt">The
growing international alliance of European pro-life groups organized to
put pressure on the parliament. An Estrela report Facebook page
attracted several thousand members within 24 hours of going up.
Thousands of emails flooded into MEP offices in Brussels and Strasbourg.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="font-size:10pt">Irish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Paul Murphy <a href="http://www.paulmurphymep.eu/2013/12/rejection-of-estrela-report-shows-that-majority-of-meps-have-one-foot-in-the-dark-ages/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank">said</a>,
“With the rejection of the Estrela report that dealt with Sexual and
reproductive rights, the majority of the European Parliament has shown
themselves to have one foot firmly in the Dark Ages. An array of
backward anti <a style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent!important;border:medium none!important;display:inline!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;margin:0px!important;min-height:0px!important;min-width:0px!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;text-decoration:underline!important" title="Click to Continue > by CouponDropDown" id="_GPLITA_1" href="http://c-fam.org/en/issues/human-rights-system/7644-sexual-left-outraged-over-rejection-by-european-parliament#">woman<img style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline ! important; float: none ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" src="http://cdncache1-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png"></a>,
anti-choice groups mobilised to put pressure on MEPs to vote against
this report. These groups masquerade as being pro-life however…they have
scant regard for the lives and health of <a style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent!important;border:medium none!important;display:inline!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;margin:0px!important;min-height:0px!important;min-width:0px!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;text-decoration:underline!important" title="Click to Continue > by CouponDropDown" id="_GPLITA_0" href="http://c-fam.org/en/issues/human-rights-system/7644-sexual-left-outraged-over-rejection-by-european-parliament#">women<img style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline ! important; float: none ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" src="http://cdncache1-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png"></a>.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="font-size:10pt">Edite Estrela, <a href="http://www.lgbt-ep.eu/press-releases/european-parliament-rejects-resolution-on-sexual-and-reproductive-health-rights/" target="_blank">author of the report</a>
and Member of the LGBT Intergroup, said, “It’s shameful that in 2013,
the European Parliament adopted a more conservative resolution than the
previous text on this issue, adopted in 2002. This shows how much work
remains to defend the rights of <a style="background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent!important;border:medium none!important;display:inline!important;float:none!important;height:auto!important;margin:0px!important;min-height:0px!important;min-width:0px!important;padding:0px!important;vertical-align:baseline!important;width:auto!important;text-decoration:underline!important" title="Click to Continue > by CouponDropDown" id="_GPLITA_3" href="http://c-fam.org/en/issues/human-rights-system/7644-sexual-left-outraged-over-rejection-by-european-parliament#">women<img style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent ! important; border: medium none ! important; display: inline ! important; float: none ! important; height: 10px ! important; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3px ! important; min-height: 0px ! important; min-width: 0px ! important; padding: 0px ! important; vertical-align: super ! important; width: 10px ! important;" src="http://cdncache1-a.akamaihd.net/items/it/img/arrow-10x10.png"></a>
and minorities. This is a battle lost, not the war.” Estrela described
her opponenst as “grubby alliance of right and far-right groups.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="font-size:10pt">Austrian MEP Ulrike Lunacek, Co-President of the LGBT Intergroup and <a href="http://www.lgbt-ep.eu/press-releases/european-parliament-rejects-resolution-on-sexual-and-reproductive-health-rights/" target="_blank">spokesman for the Green Party</a>
said, “I’m shocked and ashamed by this vote. By a very narrow margin,
colleagues refused discussing and enhancing the rights of women and LGBT
persons in detail.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="font-size:10pt">Prior to the report the European Humanist Association <a href="http://humanistfederation.eu/womens-rights-threatened-again-by-conservatives-at-the-european-parliament/http://humanistfederation.eu/womens-rights-threatened-again-by-conservatives-at-the-european-parliament/" target="_blank">warned</a>
that Members of the European Parliament “have been harassed - more
than 80 000 emails received – by extremist religious organizations
requesting them to reject the report, sometimes with personal threats.
These organizations have spread the most shameful lies about the content
of the report, saying for instance that its adoption would lead to
compulsory masturbation for children or to legalization of paedophilia
in Europe.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10pt"></span><span style="font-size:10pt">Until
recently European pro-lifers have not been organized at the
international level but in recent years that has changed dramatically.
The <a href="http://www.oneofus.eu/" target="_blank">One-of-Us Campaign</a>
calling on the European Commission to take up the cause of unborn
children gathered 1.8 million signatures from around Europe and
guarantees the issues will be on the European agenda in the coming
months.</span></p>
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