According to latest infformation, the European Commission’s response to the highly controversial pro-abortion ECI “My Voice, My Choice” willl be presented this afternoon at a press conference in Brussels by Vice-President of the Commission for Social Rights Roxana Minzatu and European Commissioner for Equality Hadja Lahbib. The Commission, it has transpired, will not propose new legislation. Instead, it might provide provide Member States with “guidelines on how to use European funds to finance abortion services”.
If such guidelines are indeed published, or if EU funds are indeed used to fund abortions, this would not only stand in contradiction to the statement published by the Commission in reaction to the ONE OF US initiative in 2014, which remains the by far most successful ECI in terms of statements of support collected, but it would also raise serious legal questions. Since the EU has no competences concerning abortion, it has also no right to finance abortions. Any use of EU funds for such purposes would thus very likely be illegal.
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