EU: In brief" "
The Commission for Development and Cooperation of the European Parliament has adopted the report of MEP Ulla Sandbaek on the draft regulation of the EP and the Council on support for policies concerning reproductive and sexual hygiene and connected rights in the developing countries. The controversial document was subjected to much debate, since it indicated abortion as one of the family planning measures to reduce deaths and serious illnesses of women in pregnancy and childbirth and to limit the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases. Following over one hundred amendments, the parliamentary Commission voted on the new report, in which it is specified that “the present regulation prohibits the promotion both of incentives in favour of sterilization or abortion and of the improper experimentation of birth-control methods in the developing countries”.
