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Post by pieter on Jul 5, 2019 9:27:39 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jul 5, 2019 9:31:16 GMT -7
WHEN SHE DECIDES
The world is better, stronger, safer.
She decides whether, when, and with whom.
To have sex.
To fall in love.
To marry.
To have children.
She has the right.
To information, to health care, to choose.
She is free.
To feel pleasure.
To use contraception.
To access abortion safely.
To decide.
Free from pressure.
Free from harm.
Free from judgement and fear.
Because when others decide for her, she
faces violence, forced marriage, oppression.
She faces risks to her health, to her dignity,
to her dreams, to her life.
When she does not decide, she cannot create the life she deserves,
the family she wants, a prosperous future to call her own.
We - and you, and he, and they - are uniting. Standing together with her so she can make the decisions only she should make.
Political leadership and social momentum are coming together like never before.
But we can go further, and we can do more.
From today, we fight against the fear.
We right the wrongs.
We mobilise political and financial support.
We work to make laws and policies just.
We stand up for what is right.
Together, we create the world that
is better, stronger, safer.
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Post by pieter on Jul 5, 2019 9:37:03 GMT -7
 The storyTHE SPARKSheDecides was launched at the start of 2017 as a movement to support the rights of girls and women to decide freely and for themselves about their sexual lives, including whether, when, with whom and how many children they have. SheDecides began with two words, then a one day conference, and has rapidly evolved into a growing global movement which is guided by the vision in the SheDecides manifesto:
A new normal where girls and women decide about their bodies, their lives, their futures. Without question.
SheDecides was created as an urgent response to US President Donald Trump’s reinstatement and dramatic expansion of the Global Gag Rule – also known as the Mexico City Policy – in January 2017. The rule prevents NGOs outside the US from receiving money from the US government if they provide safe abortions or information about abortion, and has devastating effects on women, girls and their communities around the world. Even before the Global Gag Rule was reinstated and expanded in 2017, many essential services were drastically underfunded in many countries. The situation is now far worse, especially for access to safe abortion and comprehensive sexuality education.
A #ResistGag protester in Helsinki, Finland, in July 2018. Photograph: Alessandro Rampazzo/AFP/Getty Images
This attack on women's human rights prompted then Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and International Development, Lilianne Ploumen, along with her counterparts in the governments of Belgium, Denmark and Sweden, to launch SheDecides as a global initiative to defend those rights. On 2 March 2017, these governments organised the first SheDecides pledging conference in Brussels. They were immediately joined by other governments, organisations and individuals. SheDecides became the rallying call for leaders and citizens alike to stand up as a matter of urgency to protect the rights, health, safety and livelihoods of millions of girls and women around the world.www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/dec/26/how-trump-gag-rule-inspired-worldwide-movement-shedecides |
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Post by pieter on Jul 5, 2019 9:50:57 GMT -7
Listen from 19:10 minutes:
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Post by pieter on Jul 5, 2019 9:56:33 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jul 5, 2019 10:00:39 GMT -7
I don't endorse this video, but use it as a counterveiling power for the Pro Lilianne Ploumen video's above and under this video here.
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Post by pieter on Jul 5, 2019 10:05:19 GMT -7
Here she receives the Dutch feminist Aletta Jacobs prize
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Post by pieter on Jul 5, 2019 10:09:17 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jul 5, 2019 10:18:09 GMT -7
Abortion in the Netherlands Abortion in the Netherlands was fully legalized on November 1, 1984, allowing abortions to be done on-demand until the twenty-first week. Abortion for medical reasons can be performed until 24 weeks. There is a five-day waiting period for abortions.History Pro-choice, "Boss in your own belly" demonstration by the radical Dutch feminist organisation Dolle Mina (Mad Mina) during the seventiesAbortion was deemed illegal under the Penal Code of 1886. Convictions were all but precluded, however, by a requirement that the prosecution prove that the fetus had been alive until the abortion. The Morality Acts of 1911 closed this loophole, and strictly barred all abortions, except those performed to save the life of the pregnant woman.
Legalization reached the forefront of public debate in the Netherlands during the 1970s as many other Western European countries liberalized their laws. The Staten-Generaal, however, was unable to reach a consensus between those opposing legalization, those in favor of allowing abortion, and those favoring a compromise measure. A controversial abortion law was passed in 1981 with single swing votes: 76 pro and 74 against in the House of Representatives, and 38 pro and 37 against in the Senate. The law left abortion a crime, unless performed at a clinic or hospital that is issued an official abortion certificate by the Dutch government, and the woman who is asking for the abortion declares she considers it to be an emergency. The law came into effect on November 1, 1984. 2,500 protest abortion in The Hague, Netherlands, during the Dec. 6, 2014 March for Life.Currently, there are a little over 100 Dutch general hospitals certified to perform abortions, and 17 specialized abortion clinics. More than 90% of abortions take place in the specialized clinics.
In the Netherlands, abortion performed by a certified clinic or hospital is effectually allowed at any point between conception and viability, subject to a five-day waiting period. After the first trimester, the procedure becomes stricter, as two doctors must consent to treatment. In practice, abortions are performed until approximately 24 weeks into pregnancy, although this limit is the topic of ongoing discussion among physicians in the Netherlands, since, due to recent medical advancements, a fetus can sometimes be considered viable prior to 24 weeks. As a result of this debate, abortions are only rarely performed after 22 weeks of pregnancy. Abortions must be performed in a hospital.
The number of abortions has been relatively stable in the 21st century, around 28,000 per year. As of 2010, the abortion rate was 9.7 abortions per 1000 women aged 15–44 years. File photo. Plastic foetuses lay on the ground in a square during an anti-abortion protest in Houten, The Netherlands, 12 August 2013. Dutch Christian organisation, 'Schreeuw om Leven', or 'Scream for Life' in English, staged the protest against the establishment of a Centre for Birth Control, Abortion and Sexuality Rotterdam (CASA) clinic in Houten. EPA/ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN
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Post by pieter on Jul 5, 2019 12:12:03 GMT -7
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