Ulla Margrethe Sandbæk (born 1943) is a former Danish Member of the European Parliament for the June Movement .
4-669: The Sandbæk Report was a report authored by Ulla Sandbæk that after being passed by the European Parliament is now a European Union regulation titled Aid for Policies and Actions on Reproductive and Sexual Health and Rights in Developing Countries . Anti-abortion groups and the Catholic Church claim that the report compels all European Union member states to fund overseas abortion services through their foreign aid budgets. They claim that
8-721: The European Union wished to "fill the decency gap" left by the Mexico City policy. Ulla Sandb%C3%A6k She served from 1994 to 2004. She was responsible for the Sandbæk report that resulted in a European Union regulation increasing funding for the United Nations Population Fund , which controversially included funding abortion. In 2015 , she was elected to the Danish parliament for
12-488: The language of the report by talking of "universal access to a comprehensive range of safe and reliable reproductive and sexual health care and services" includes abortion under the World Health Organization definition, and that this was admitted by Ulla Sandbæk in a radio interview. An amendment preventing the use of European Union aid to finance abortions was defeated. The increase in funding of 150%
16-535: Was contrasted to a 2.3% overall increase in the aid budget. The policy was intended, in part, to replace some of the U.S. funding lost due to the Mexico City Policy , the U.S. policy under the George W. Bush administration which prohibited funding of abortion through foreign aid, particularly reversing the de-funding of the United Nations Population Fund . The European commissioner Poul Nielson said that
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