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Reproductive and health rights are a national issue, say conservative MEPs (Photo: Wikipedia)

Parliament fails to pass report on women's reproductive rights

The European Parliament erupted in internal bickering on Tuesday (10 December) after an alliance of right-wing MEPs managed to sweep a report on sexual and reproductive rights for women from the table.

The report by Portuguese Social Democrat MEP Edite Estrela puts such rights on a par with other human rights and speaks of the "problematic reality" of teenage pregnancies, the importance of making contraception widely available, of comprehensive "non-judgemental" sexuality education and ...

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Reproductive and health rights are a national issue, say conservative MEPs (Photo: Wikipedia)

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