Today, Grégor Puppinck, Director of the European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) and in 2014 president of the citizens’ comittee that organized the ECI “ONE OF US”, sent a letter to Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, Stéphane Séjourné, former French minister and Vice-President of the Commission; and the twenty-five other European Commissioners, in view of the fact that the European Commission is poised to publish its response to the “My Voice My Choice” initiative on 25 February.
The request made by this initiative, which has gathered far less statements of support from ordinary citizen that ONE OF US did in 2014, but which is enthusiastically promoted by, on the one hand, the left to extreme-left political spectrum in the European Parliament, and financed by the abortion industry, is scandalous: it wants to employ EU funds in order to help circumvent Member State’s laws.
The idea is that EU money should be used to help a French woman who is between 14 and 22 weeks pregnant, and therefore outside the legal time limit for abortion in France, to travel to the Netherlands and have an abortion there. A Polish woman whose child has been diagnosed with Down syndrome and who wishes to have an abortion for this reason, which is illegal in Poland, could travel to Germany, with funding from the EU.
Ultimately, this would have the predictable effect of rendering ineffective all limits or restrictions on abortion that exist in 26 EU Member States in order to make the one Member State with the most laxist legislation prevail over all others. It is therefore not only Poland or Malta, countries often pilloried for their restrictive laws on abortion, that are targeted, but the idea is really to trigger a “race to the bottom”, in which the country with the most reprehensible moral choices is allowed to set the moral standard for everyone. This, indeed,is the stated objective of the initiators of My Voice My Choice. Supporting such an objective is not just a political decision that the Commission should not make, but it would bbe a clear misuse of EU funds and hence illegal.
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