Pro-Life MEPs and activists have expressed mixed feelings with regard to the Commission’s reply to the aborton initiative “My Voice My Choice” in a public debate held at the premises of the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday. MEP Matej Tonin from Slovenia and Ségolène du Closel of ONE OF US were very upbeat, pointing out thet the pro-aborts had lost on all accounts: There will be no special fund to fnance abortion tourism, there will be no extra money for abortion, they have not been able to force the Commission to do anything. And despite all their money from dark sources, despite spending ten times more per statement of support, they collected far less signatures than ONE OF US did in 2014, which shows that the pro-life position has much more support among EU citizens than the abortion agenda, however potent its financiers and political clout may be.
Others were more cautious, expressing concern over the Commission’s willingness to allow the use of money from the European Social Fund to finance abortion, albeit not abortion tourism. The predominant opinon was that this would be illegal, and there was a clear determination to take action. Nicolas Bauer of the European Center for Law and Justice has found out that ESF money seems to have already, albeit unbeknownst to the wider public, been used in this way.
MEP Miriam Lexmann (KDH) from Slovakia paragonized Feminism with Communism, which seemed invncible in 1988, but collapsed in 1989. All agreed that the fight for human rights and dignity must continue, and that this fight must primarily be directed against the distortion of both concepts by those who have appropriated the language of human rights in order to destroy them from within.
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