Non-discrimination in the framework of sexual and reproductive health and rights (debate)
Ryszard Antoni Legutko, on behalf of the ECR Group. – Madam President, after this revolting document called the Estrela report was defeated in this Chamber, the Left has come back with another ideological offensive. The concept of a reproductive right is absurd. It is nothing but an ideological ploy to condone morally dubious practices. This is what the Left did in the past, and this is what they are doing today.
The particularly alarming consequences of so-called ‘reproductive rights’ are massive violations of human conscience. The conscience clauses have been suspended, removed or drastically limited. Doctors, priests, teachers, lawyers, state functionaries and ordinary people are forced to do something which is morally wrong. All of this is simply outrageous and cannot be accepted. If this is the direction in which the EU is going, I am afraid we are on the threshold of a dark age.
(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))