Skrevet av: Anneli Rønes,
11.06.2012
25. mai talte Tyrkias statsminister Erdoğan på avslutningssesjonen for 2012 International Parliamentarians' Conference on the Implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action (IPCI/ICPD). Til parlamentarikere fra hele verden fortalte han at regjeringen en stund har jobbet med planer om å forby abort, og allerede i juni vil både regjeringen og parlamentet diskutere dette.
På IPCI sa statsministeren følgende: "As Turkey, we are also in great sensibility when it comes to children. I love children very much. I want at least three children in my country. Because I know that we need a young and dynamic population and we continue to work on this. Turkey is among the first states to sign United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Besides we have also adopted the Child Protection Law and came a long way in meeting the legal deficiencies. I say this frankly, I am a Prime Minister who is against births by cesarean section and I see this as a murder. I see abortion as a murder. Nobody should have the right to interfere with this. You kill a child either in a mother's womb or after the child is born. There is no difference. We have to be much more sensitive to this. We have to cooperate against this."
Denne uttalelsen har ført til furore blant Tyrkias kvinner, og reaksjonene har ikke latt vente på seg. Say No Abortion Ban søker å engasjere flest mulig i motstanden mot et abortforbud, og deres opprop kan signeres her. Det finnes også en egen Facebook-gruppe.
Flere organisasjoner - også Sex og Politikk - har engasjert seg i kampen, for eksempel kom IPPF med en uttalelse i forrige uke:
25. mai talte Tyrkias statsminister Erdoğan på avslutningssesjonen for 2012 International Parliamentarians' Conference on the Implementation of the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action (IPCI/ICPD). Til parlamentarikere fra hele verden fortalte han at regjeringen en stund har jobbet med planer om å forby abort, og allerede i juni vil både regjeringen og parlamentet diskutere dette.
På IPCI sa statsministeren følgende: "As Turkey, we are also in great sensibility when it comes to children. I love children very much. I want at least three children in my country. Because I know that we need a young and dynamic population and we continue to work on this. Turkey is among the first states to sign United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Besides we have also adopted the Child Protection Law and came a long way in meeting the legal deficiencies. I say this frankly, I am a Prime Minister who is against births by cesarean section and I see this as a murder. I see abortion as a murder. Nobody should have the right to interfere with this. You kill a child either in a mother's womb or after the child is born. There is no difference. We have to be much more sensitive to this. We have to cooperate against this."
Denne uttalelsen har ført til furore blant Tyrkias kvinner, og reaksjonene har ikke latt vente på seg. Say No Abortion Ban søker å engasjere flest mulig i motstanden mot et abortforbud, og deres opprop kan signeres her. Det finnes også en egen Facebook-gruppe.
Flere organisasjoner - også Sex og Politikk - har engasjert seg i kampen, for eksempel kom IPPF med en uttalelse i forrige uke:
The
International Planned Parenthood Federation European Network (IPPF
European Network) is extremely concerned by the statements of the
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to significantly reduce
women's access to safe and legal abortion.
Restricting
access to abortion from ten weeks to four weeks of gestation is
inconsistent with the majority of abortion laws. Taking into
account that women have a menstrual cycle of approximately 28 days,
most women might not even consider being pregnant until after four
weeks. Limiting abortion on request to four weeks of gestation
would therefore correspond with a de facto ban on abortion and
would constitute a grave violation of women's human rights.
IPPF European
Network strongly believes that abortion should be legal, safe and
accessible for all women. Access to legal comprehensive abortion
care is needed to safeguard women's health and reduce mortality and
morbidity resulting from illegal and/or unsafe abortion.
Limiting the
gestational age for abortion on request to four weeks will
effectively restrict access to abortion. The main effect will not
be an increase in birth rates or a decrease in abortion rates but
will rather lead to an increase in women seeking refuge to
abortions provided in unsafe conditions, putting their health and
lives at risk.
Women's right
to safe and legal abortion care is grounded in international
International treaties, conventions, agreements and strategies
indirectly acknowledge the right to safe and legal abortion. This
right resides under other rights such as the right to health, the
right to decide on the number and spacing of children, and the
right to life. Examples of these agreements, treaties and
conventions are the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms
of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (relevant provisions:
articles 12 and 16)(ratified by Turkey 20/12/1985) http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
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