Catholic doctors and lawyers this Friday criticized the European Parliament’s approval of a request to include the right to abortion in the European Union’s Charter of Fundamental Rights, believing that the body “could not have set a worse example.”
“Although the resolution of the European Parliament is not binding, it is an affront to the principle of the Union of Law and Democracy: it does not fall within the competence that the European Treaties attribute to the European Parliament, and it was not preceded by extensive debate. This is stated in a joint statement by the Catholic Legal Associations (AJC) and the Portuguese Catholic Physicians (AMCP).
For these two structures, “the resolution excludes the Charter of Fundamental Rights itself, the preamble of which states that the Union “puts the human being at the center of its actions”.”
“The resolution makes no mention of women being pressured into abortion and does not encourage the creation of mechanisms to support women who want to have children,” they add.
According to Catholic lawyers and doctors, “by establishing a form of pressure on states on an issue that is not a consensus and gives rise to deep divisions, the European Parliament attacks the unity of the peoples of the member states, which constitutes the most important basis of European politics.” project “.
The European Parliament (EP) approved on Thursday a decision to call for the inclusion of all women’s sexual and reproductive rights, including the right to abortion, in the European Union (EU) Charter of Fundamental Rights.
The resolution was approved by 336 votes in favor, 163 against and 39 abstentions, and in the document MEPs demand that the right to abortion be enshrined in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, a demand that has been put forward for a long time, but the recommendation must be approved unanimously in the EU Council and is unlikely to will be accepted, so effective inclusion may be no more than an intention.
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Source: CM Jornal
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