Author: Lieber Augustin

If abortion is “healthcare”, then everything can be everything.

~ Lieber Augustin

In its reply to the ECI “My Voice, My Choice”, the European Commission has spent a considerable amount of paper and ink in order to demonstrate that abortion is “healthcare”, and that the European Social Fund (ESF+) can be used to fund abortions. But while that reasoning is lengthy, it mainly proves things that do not need to be proven, while it fails to adduce convincing arguments where they would have been necessary. Very conspicuously, while abundantly citing from documents that have little relevance to the matter, the Commission avoids citing the only extant legal definition of “healthcare” within the EU legal order, one that makes a clear link between “healthcare” and the purpose and intention of restoring someones health. This omission is probably not a mere oversight or coincidence, but deliberate: whatever is not supportive of the Commission’s point of view is simply left out, treated as if it didn’t exist.

But if abortion is not “healthcare”, then the use of ESF+ money to finance abortion is clearly illegal – with all the implications and consequences that this may lead to.

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The European Commission’s funding for the abortion lobby: Un-levelling the playing field

~ Lieber Augustin

The EU likes to see itself as a benefactor of so-called ‘civil society’. The CERV programme in particular is intended to promote civil society engagement and strengthen democracy. In reality, however, the exact opposite is happening: the one-sided promotion of supposed non-governmental organisations based on clearly ideological criteria distorts democratic competition, and the organisations receiving funding become an extension of the European Commission, albeit without transparency or political accountability.

In this way, the Commission is systematically and deliberately creating an uneven playing field, in which those not agreeing to the Commission’s understanding of “our common values” (e.g., abortion, euthanasia, re-definition of marriage and family, etc.) must fight uphill battles.

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Plundering the Social Fund

~ Lieber Augustin

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 poor at whose expense the Commission wants to fund “abortion on demand”, the trademark of a morally irresponsible lifestyle. This is part of what they call “Social Policy”.

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Legislating by press statement??? The Commission’s policy announcement on abortion is grossly unconstitutional

~ Lieber Augustin

The surprising announcement yesterday afternoon by Commissioners Lahbib and Mînzatu that abortions can now be financed by the European Social Fund (ESF+) is probably one of the most outrageous abuses of power in the history of the European Union, which is by no means lacking in such brazen transgressions. It is an attempt to change existing law without any legislative procedure, simply by means of a ‘communication’ – suddenly interpreting it in a completely different way than it has been understood until now. The Commission, to believe its own words, thinks that this is ‘smart’.

No, this course of action is not at all ‘smart’, but it is a clear violation of EU Treaties, which require that legal changes can only be enacted through legal procedures, not simply by holding a press conference in which it is announced that a law has, for reasons unknown, changed its meaning overnight. It also shows that the Von-der-Leyen Commission, which lectures everyone else on the importance of the “rule of law”, has a rather cavalier approach to that foundational legal principle and, it must be suspected, has probably no clue what that term even means. From a constitutional point of view, this rupture of constitutionality and breach of the rule of law is without doubt illegal and should give every democrat cause for concern, regardless of their worldview. If the executive power is allowed to re-interpret rules in this way, then nothing and nobody is secure anymore.

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PRESS RELEASE: Statement by ONE OF US on the abortion initiative ‘My Voice, My Choice’

~ Lieber Augustin

ONE OF US alarmed by the European Commission’s decision to fund abortions

The European Federation ONE OF US notes that no new EU fund will be created by the European Commission to finance cross-border abortion but expresses its deep concern and indignation at the European Commission’s response to the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) My Voice, My Choice’. For the first time, the Commission will open the possibility for an existing fund, the ESF+ (European Social Fund Plus), to finance abortion.

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Will the European Commission give “guidelines” how to misuse EU funds???

~ Lieber Augustin

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.