Today, Politico magazine is publishing a full-page advertisement in the form of an open letter to the European Commission. Twenty-six signatories, including internationally renowned politicians such as Hillary Clinton, Justin Trudeau, Mary Robinson, Tarja Halonen, Dalia Grybauskaite, Sanna Marin, and several other lesser-known figures, are calling on the Commission to break EU law in order to establish a special fund to finance abortion tourism, as demanded by the pro-abortion ‘My Voice, My Choice’ initiative. Bizarrely, abortion is framed as “a step for equality”, as if creating a “right” for one category of people (women) to kill another category of people (children before birth) were not one of the most striking and self-evident examples of inequality.
This advertisement alone cost €15,000. It is financed by an (obviously well-funded) American group called Vital Voices Global Partnership, which states on its website that it is funded by the American government, but also by various major private donors such as the Gates Foundation, PayPal, Verizon, Airbnb, Uber, Google, Procter & Gamble, and others. It is unclear whether this is part of the ECI’s officially stated expenditure, which already is close to 1 million Euro.
The support for the initiative by left-wing politicians (both well-known and lesser-known) should come as no surprise, as the legalisation of the killing of unwanted children has been a defining feature of the left-wing policy agenda for decades, in the US, Europe, and world-wide. It has essentially replaced the commitment to the working class, to fair wages, or decent working conditions.
The spokesperson for the initiative is, unsurprisingly, a scholarship holder of the Obama Foundation. This is how powerful networks, which usually remain in the background, are nowadays cultivating the next generation of politicians: talent scouts cast and recruit suitable candidates from left-wing and extreme left-wing student circles, and invite them to training seminars where they undergo ideological indoctrination and media training, learn to use curated vocabulary like “sexual and reproductive health and rights”, and gain access to international networks, before being sent back to their home countries. There they can then form what is presented to the public as ‘civil society’: a carefully and professionally curated narrative about ‘a small circle of friends’ who have come together ‘against all odds’ to ‘build one of the most inspiring democratic movements in the history of the EU,’ as the expensive full-page advertisement puts it. The reader is supposed to be impressed by this story-telling and believe that Obama, Clinton, Trudeau, et al. have only now learned of this sensational and unexpected initiative coming from the heart of society, which, generously, they are now adopting and supporting. But in fact Obama and the Clintons are the movements sugar-daddies.
In view of these circumstances, it should come as no surprise that the ECI ‘My Voice, My Choice’, despite the obvious illegality of its proposal and its complete incompatibility with EU law, has received so much support in the European Parliament and other EU institutions. What is instead surprising is that, despite all the money that has been spent and all the political clout that stands behind them, they have collected such a meagre number of statements of support: only 1,1 million signatures, considerably less than the 1,7 million signatures that ONE OF US collected in 2014. Even more telling,the pro-abortion initiative spent nearly ten times more money per signature collected than the pro-life initiative.
Overall, therefore, and considering the means employed, the outcome of ‘My Voice, My Choice’ must be considered as a defeat rather than a success for the globalist power network that stands behind it – a network that certainly does not lack money, access to the media, and political leverage, but which lacks support among normal citizens with normal lives.
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