Research focused on cardiac patients (patients with atrial fibrillation) and women with complications during pregnancy (high blood pressure and diabetes).

Girls and women with anorexia nervosa have higher rates of pregnancy complications than women without eating disorders; they have higher rates of infertility and of spontaneous abortions; and their children seem to have a higher prevalence of emotional and nutritional problems.

– (IT) Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, in paragraph 66, after the phrase ‘stresses that women should have control over their sexual and reproductive rights, particularly through easy access to contraception and abortion’, through this oral amendment, I propose that the following text should be added after the word ‘abortion’: ‘whilst also recognising the right to life of the unborn child, calls on Member States and the Commission to implement measures and actions to support the continuation of the pregnancy by bringing in specific social and welfare policies which help women to overcome, wherever possible, the causes that lead the ...[+++]m to choose abortion’.

62. Stresses that, although progress has been made with regard to the employment of women and despite their high level of education, they continue to be clustered in certain professions, to be paid less than men for the same work and under-represented in decision-taking positions, and continue to be regarded with suspicion by employers owing to pregnancy and maternity; the gender pay gap must be seriously addressed to guarantee women's economic independence and equality between women and men on the labour market;