Commissioner Lahbib may find this ‘smart’, but for most Europeans it is simply an obscenity: not only is the European Commission redefining abortion as a ‘health service’ from the lectern of a press conference room in order to empower itself to finance it at the taxpayer’s expense, but in addition it wants to use the European Social Fund for this purpose, which in practice means that the funds to finance the killing of children will come precisely from a fund that was created with the purpose of helping the poor, the needy, and large families with small incomes. But the ESF, like any fund, is limited in size, and what is spent on killing children cannot be spent on helping the poor.
In other words: it is precisely the poorest and neediest at whose expense the Commission wants to fund “abortion on demand”.
Might we perhaps propose a different solidarity measure? One under which, for each abortion that takes place in Europe, 10 cent will be deducted from each Commissioner’s salary and diven to Mother Teresa’s missionaries of charity? And perhaps Commissioners Lahbib and Mînzatu could voluntarily pay a little bit more, say 15 cent, since they are so fond of “voluntary” solutions?
More seriously, following the Commission’s response to the abortion initiative yesterday, we should probably warn Commission and Member States: what if the Commission’s “smart” idea of using ESF money to finance abortion turned out to be illegal? What the Communication says about abortion being healthcare, and ESF money being available to fund it, is just an opinion, and perhaps one that the courts might not follow.
The unlawful use of funds from the EU budget is a crime, and those responsible face not only the prospect of criminal persecution, but also personal civil liability. This concerns Commission offcials and Member States Officials alike, and they had better not rely on the Commission’s extravagant assertions.
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