Preceded by Rui Silva | Succeeded by Fernando Seara Name Edite Estrela Nationality Portuguese Resigned January 2002 | |
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Office Member of the European Parliament since 2004 Political party | ||
Edite Estrela "Significado dos verbos" / Luís Filipe Borges / 5 Para a Meia Noite
Edite de Fátima Santos Marreiros Estrela , (born Belver; 28 October 1949) is a Portuguese politician and was a Member of the European Parliament for the Socialist Party; part of the Party of European Socialists.
She is a former Mayor of Sintra from 1994 and 2002 and teacher of literature.
She won worldwide notoriety in 2013 for being the author of a controversial parliamentary report on "sexual and reproductive health and rights", yet much needed, in which she asserted that access to abortion is a human right, and that there should be compulsory sexual education "inside and outside school". Following massive protest from conservative parties and associations, the European Parliament rejected the draft report by a narrow margin of votes.
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