At the age of 27, Charlène became pregnant unintentionally. Her partner at the time panicked and pressured her to have an abortion. She wanted to keep the child, but she found no support at the Planned Parenthood counselling centre she turned to: they just wanted to abort her child. When she hesitated, she was told that she should ‘not talk about a baby,’ that it was just ‘a cluster of cells.’ Charlène resisted the pressure for a long time, refusing to take the preparatory medication. In the end, she gave in. Her boyfriend forced the abortion pill into her mouth Just weeks later, she broke up with her partner, fell into a deep depression and struggled to get her life back on track. Today, Charlène has a family again. But she cannot forget what she went through. ‘You can only learn to live with it,’ says the young woman. Her appeal to European politicians: ‘Protect women’s rights against pressure and coercion! Create real alternatives!’

Charlène was one of five women telling their stories in the European Parliament yesterday. Each story was different, but what they all had in common is that the women were left alone at one of the most crucial moments of their lives.

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Abortion activists have collected 1.2 million signatures for a European Citizens’ Initiative. In an interview with the German newspaper ‘Tagespost’, Cornelia Kaminski of Aktion Lebensrecht für Alle (ALfA) sharply criticises its goals and financing.

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The European Parliament has passed a Resolution calling for a ‘right to abortion’ to be included in the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights. The Resolution was supported primarily by representatives of the left-wing and far-left factions, but also by the liberals.

From a moral point of view, the declaration of intent to exclude an entire category of human beings, namely unborn children, from the protection of human rights, whilst guaranteeing another category of human beings a ‘right’ to kill them with impunity, is an act of unparalleled wickedness and a sad sign of intellectual and moral decline, spearheaded by those politicians who introduce or approve such motions.

However, the question of the legal implications of such an addition to the Charter of Fundamental Rights is much more interesting.

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