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CoE Assembly clearly + twice Rejects Attempt to Stop Banning any Surrogacy

Written by ACM
Tuesday, 11 October 2016
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*Strasbourg/CoE/Angelo Marcopolo/- A Crystal-Clear Majority of MEPs, in PanEuropean CoE's Parliamentary Assembly, Twice Rejected, Today, a Controversial Attempt to Stop Banning the UnPopular practice of Surrogacy in all cases.

 
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After a very "Hot" and Long Debate, concluding an almost 2 Years-long process, full of unexpected upheavals (See Infra), finaly, a clear and uncontested Majority of 83 Votes against only 77 Rejected a Draft Text which Refused to Ban all Surrogacies.
Meanwhile, an even Stronger Majority of MEPs had already Rejected another Attempt to "Erase" an Explicit Call to "Condemn All Forms of Surrogacy", with 90 Votes against Only 57, and 7 Abstentions.

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Moreover, Earlier this Week, the competent CoE Assembly's Social and Health affairs Committee, had already Adopted, with a Clear Majority of 24 Votes against Only 16, an Amendment Explicitly Supporting "Childrens and Womens' Rights ...by Condemning All Forms of Surrogacy".


A Last-minute Attempt to override that by pushing another, Strange Vote against such Amendments in the Plenary, with Only a Small "Difference" f.ex. of  just One (1) Vote, (i.e. 79 v. 80, and 5 Abstentions,etc), while, Curiously, the Voting Machines had repeatedly ...Stopped Working, as an Astonished Chairman of that Meeting Denounced, was, Finaly, Droped with the Above Mentioned Concluding Results, voted by a Strong Majority, (Comp.Supra).

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The 47 Member Countries strong CoE has Focused mainly on Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law, particularly after such a Mandate was more clearly specified at an Historic PanEuropean Summit of Heads of State/Government in Warsaw, Poland, on April 2005, (Comp. "Eurofora" co-Founders NewsReports from that landmark event, then Published at "TCWeekly"+).

 


Holding an Official Mandate from that PanEuropean Summit, the current President of EU Commission, Long-Time former Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker, had writen an Exceptional Report on EU -CoE Cooperation, (published a few Years afterwards in Strasbourg), where he mainly Concluded that EU should often Consult the CoE's longer Experience and Legal Expertise on Human Rights issues.

 

Meanwhile, during Today's PACE Debates, several MEPs denounced, inter alia, also the Fact that an Initial Draft Resolution, which had been officialy Tabled at the Initiative of mainstream ChristianDemocrat/EPP MEP Valeriu Ghiletchi, against the Controversial and UnPopular practice of Surrogacy, has been afterwards ..."Hijacked" by Others, resulting in a entirely Different Draft Report, prepared by a Socialist MEP, who aimed, on the Contrary, at an Opposite Aim !

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As Ghiletchi himself, (an Experienced former President of PACE's Social affairs Committee, from the Governing Party in Molodova), told "Eurofora", that Controversial Draft seeked to open some Dangerous Breaches towards the atrocious practice of "Surrogate Mothers"' exploitation, (and Artificial Births of Human Beings controlled by Technocrats), under Pretext of a Strange conception of some ambiguous aspects of so-called "Childrens' Rights", which, in fact, were also taken "Hostages" of such a Double-Faced approach. 

 

However, during a PACE Hearing of various Experts, earlier this Week in Strasbourg, at a Side-Event organized on the sidelines of CoE Assembly's Plenary Session for Autumn 2016, at least one among the Representatives of Invited Human Rights' NGOs, told "Eurofora" that she had Raised the Question, on the Contrary, of the Need to Protect also Childrens' Rights against the Risk to Deprive them from their own Natural Family, with a clearly Known and real Father and Mother, if some Expose them to any such Controversial practice of "Surrogate Mothers", whose body is "Used" for the benefit of Others, while, both in Legal and in Moral terms, Nobody has any "Right to get a Child" at any price and by any means, (as even the French Constitutional Court has judged). 

 

Indeed, during the Debates, several among those Other MEPs, who Backed that Socialist Rapporteur, while pretending that they remained, themselves too, Opposed to "Paid" or "Commercial" Surrogacies, on the Contrarty, they clearly Revealed that they Wanted, inter alia, even to Recognize what they Claimed to be a so-called "Altruistic" Surrogacy, (something Vigorously Contested by Many Opposed MEPs), while at least one went even as far as to ..."Warn" Critics that, if they didn't Abide Now, then, Soon, some Lobbies would Push Ahead various kinds of "Transplantations of Uterus", (f.ex. in order to Artificially Bypass the Infertility of some couples, as, mainly, among Homosexuals, Hindered to get a Child by Natural Birth, etc)...

 

However, a Crystal Clear Majority in CoE's PanEuropean Assembly, which had already Refused to Debate in Plenary, and Send that Controversial Report Back to Committe, during its Previous Session on June 2016, Now Rejected Twice any among the above-mentioned Attempts to Facilitate in Practice and/or Recognize at least a Part among Surrogacies, leaving their General Prohibition intact.

 

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("DraftNews", as already send, Earlier, to "Eurofora" Subscribers/Donors. A more accurate, Full Final Version, will probably be Published asap, with much More relevant Data).

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Speaking exclusively to "EuroFora", the New EU Parliament's President, former Polish Prime Minister, ChristianDemocrat/EPP MEP Jerzy Busek, welcomed proposals by EuroFora about innovative ways for EU Citizens to attend EU debates before important final decisions which affect people's lives.

- "We (EU Parliament) must be transparent", Buzek stressed from the outset.  "We must have clear answers also for delicate questions. If we don't touch a problem, you must know why, and when shall we decide in the nearest future".. "Because "we (EU) must think about Europeans, first of all : They don't understand well what is going on in the EU. So, it's our duty to inform them, to make discussions here more interesting".

"EuroFora" congratulated President Buzek for the anouncement he made, from the 1st day of his election in Strasbourg (on Tuesday, 14 July 2009), on his intention to make  transparent debates, exchanges of views, etc. before the final adoption of decisions in EU Parliament's Plenary, when issues are evolving inside Committees, (See earlier publication).

And we reminded, in this regard, that "EuroFora" has been advocating a project for EU Citizens' active involvement in pluralist EU debates before important EU decisions, since more than a Decade : 1997-2007+

- "Thank you. We (EU Parliament), indeed, have exciting debates", Buzek replied. But, in practice, "without a possibility for our Citizens to see them, not even by the Press, the Radio or TV, etc., because it is in Committees", he regreted.

- "But, they (i.e. Media, Citizens, etc) might interact with you, with MEPs, etc, May be we can imagine something", "EuroFora" proposed.

- "Yes, (but) it needs, a quite new idea", Buzed observed.

- "Why not through some innovations ?", "EuroFora" suggested.

- "Innovation ? That's it. Fantastic  New Information Technologies !", Buzek realized.

- "Precisely, "EuroFora" has such a project, since more than a Decade (1997-2009), to use new technologies for public debates before major EU decisions are taken", we reminded.

- "If you have such proposals, please come to us, come to us. We must" do something, agreed the new EU Parliamen's President.

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    This fits with Buzek's main stance, expressed at EU Parliament's plenary earlier this week in Strasbourg, that the European Union must succeed to overcome a "Crisis of Trust" vis a vis EU Citizens. (See previous EuroFora publication).

    For that purpose, obviously information and debates are valuable, but purely instrumental, procedural means which can help focus on, and highlight a substantial content, attractive to EU Citizens, which needs to be determined by other, political, and not mediatic factors.  

    Buzek spoke about the urgent need to overcome the Global Economic Crisis,  the struggle for Human and Civic Rights, Democracy, etc., the Eastern Partnership, links with Russia, strategic partnership with USA and emerging countries, etc.

    But he also used (while speaking both to "EuroFora" and other Media) the expression : "The Europeans", for EU Citizens. This points right towards what several important EU leaders (including French President Sarkozy, German Chancellor Merkel, etc) have started to highlight particularly during the recent years : That there is a vital need, and an historic opportunity, for the development of a European Conscience, to stimulate e renaissance of a European Identity able to attract Popular support, for the EU to become a strong player in a Multopolar World : In other words, the revitalisation of a project for a "Political Europe".

    By a coincidence, this was indirectly but surely reminded, earlier in Strasbourg, by another ... Busek (this time with a "s") : 

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    Speaking to more than 650 participants from CoE's member countries, at the conclusion of the 2009 Summer University of its Political Schools, Erhard Busek, (with an "s"), former vice-Chancellor of Austria and EU Coordinator for South-Eastern Europe, pointed at the current need to revitalize Europe's "Identity", forged by Greek philosophy and Roman Law, Christian values and Enlightment's ideas, etc. through the ages.     

- "We have almost the same name with Jerzy Buzek (EU Parliament's new President, who is a former Polish Prime Minister), because both our Families come ...from  the same village, located at the Heart of Europe, which was often shared between Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic. But my family emmigrated a long time ago to Austria, while Jerzy Buzek's family remained in Poland", explained f. vice-Chancellor Erhard Busek to "EuroFora".   

 An astonishingly concrete and simple example of European Integration from the grassroots : Starting by EU Citizens, i.e. those "Europeans", that EU Parliament's new President, Jerzy Buzek (this time with a "z"), wants to bring alongside MEP's decision-making proces, (according to "EuroFora"'s main idea : Comp. supra)...

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