After an e-mail campaign with fake senders and an NGO campaign with fake NGOs, now there is also an open letter from ‘leading legal scholars’ with fake science. The notorious US-based Centre for Reproductive Rights (CRR) has posted a letter from around 30 so-called ‘leading legal scholars’ on the internet, with which it apparently hopes to sway the European Commission’s decision on the ‘My Voice, My Choice’ abortion initiative at the very last minute.
It may be the case that all the signatories are professors at law faculties – but their output is such that one must seriously question their professional and characterial qualifications for this. Not only do they express themselves with extreme confidence on a matter that is essentially outside their field of expertise, but they also misquote and spread untruths that are easily recognisable for everyone. If this letter is meant to harness the prestige of the authors in support of the pro-abortion campaign, the sad conclusion that any serious-minded reader will draw that there has never been any comparable sell-out of academic reputation for the purpose of promoting an ideologically motivated political purpose.
We charitably refrain from mentioning on this page the names of those who, by signing up to this delusional and self-undermining strange piece of workmanship. Whoever wants to know who the authors are can find them listed on the CRR’s website (unless, and until, following better insight and in order to protecting the signatories from the damage they are inflicting on themselves, CRR decides to withdraw the list). On the other hand, however, and much to our regret we cannot simply leave this so-called ‘expert opinion’ uncommented.
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