Edite Estrela
Edite de Fátima Santos Marreiros Estrela, GCIH is a Portuguese politician of the Socialist Party who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2014.
She is a former Mayor of Sintra from 1994 and 2002 and teacher of literature.
From 2009 until 2010, Estrela served as the parliament's rapporteur on draft legislation on parental leave. She won worldwide notoriety in 2013 for being the author of a controversial parliamentary report on "sexual and reproductive health and rights" 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.
