Compte rendu in extenso des débats

Mardi 12 septembre 2017 - Strasbourg

7.14. Adhésion de l'Union européenne à la convention du Conseil de l'Europe sur la prévention et la lutte contre la violence à l'égard des femmes et la violence domestique (A8-0266/2017 - Christine Revault d'Allonnes Bonnefoy, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt) (vote)

– Przed rozpoczęciem głosowania:

  Steven Woolfe (NI). – Mr President, I rise under Rule 184 and refer to the English version of the paper, page 10 of 24, section 4, which makes the sentence that Parliament ‘strongly affirms that the denial of sexual and reproductive health and rights services, including safe and legal abortion, is a form of violence against women’.

This clause could effectively make it a criminal offence for anyone who believes in the reduction of abortion or believes in abortion. The accompanying legal paper that is attached to it makes no reference to the potential crime of being an abortion denier. I would therefore ask in respect that the legal team refer to this document and review it once again, otherwise millions of people in the European Union as a result of this could be deemed a criminal immediately upon this vote.

  Przewodniczący. – Dziękuję bardzo. Odnotowujemy to wystąpienie, chociaż jest ono trochę z boku tego, nad czym będziemy głosować.