There is a pro-abortion bill in the EU Parliament called—what else?—My Voice, My Choice. It is supposedly a “citizen’s initiative” arising from popular demands that the European Union fund abortion for women in every country of the EU, including those where abortion is not legal.
The “citizen’s initiative” began in April 2024 when a group of Europeans asked for the European Parliament to approve such a law. Most of these “citizen’s initiatives” are ignored.
It is worth recalling that in 2012 the European Parliament refused to even consider a pro-life “citizen’s initiative.” That initiative, One of Us, gathered 1,889,758 signatures from European citizens, but was ignored.
My Voice, My Choice, which only had 1,124,513 signatures, was not only accepted, it cut through the bureaucracy like a hot knife through butter. The EU Parliament accepted it in September, presented it to the relevant committee on December 2nd, and it is slated for a full debate at this week’s plenary session.
The bill will pay for abortions for anyone in the EU who wishes to have one, even if they live in a country which does not fund abortions. It is not clear how this would work in practice. After all, many European states do not pay for abortions, with a few even forbidding or severely restricting the practice.
Seizing upon the pretext that not funding abortion is the violation of a supposed “right to abortion,” the bill’s sponsors say they want the EU to rectify this violation of a woman’s right.
At the same time, they claim they do not intend to impose abortion on all Member States.
In reality, My Voice, My Choice, does exactly that. In funding abortions in countries where it is illegal, they would clearly be violating the sovereign laws of those countries, and making abortion on demand the law of the land.
Nothing highlights the gap between the European people and their elitist rulers than the fact that its chief supporter, Slovenian MP Nika Kovač, is from a country, Slovenia, that just rejected another anti-life law.
In July, the Slovenian parliament approved the legalization of euthanasia. People were outraged. A small group of citizens called “Voice for Children and Families” organized a petition drive against the law. They gathered the necessary 46,000 signatures and forced a referendum.
The government, joined by almost all politicians, launched a massive pro-euthanasia campaign. Opposing euthanasia was a coalition of pro-life groups supported by the Catholic Church and some opposition parties.
In the end, 53% of citizens voted against the euthanasia law and it was overturned. Apart from being good news in and of itself, this episode is an example of the deep divide in the EU between politicians and the general public.
The opposition to My Voice, My Choice in the European Parliament is led by Spanish MP Margarita de la Pisa. Margarita dedicates all her time in the European Parliament to fighting against such anti-life proposals and, among her other accomplishments, is the mother of nine children. She organized a workshop to analyze the My Voice, My Choice bill.
But a group of feminists decided that the workshop should not take place. They aggressively blocked the entrance to the room inside the main European Parliament building in Brussels where the workshop was to take place.
And then they began attacking the speakers and MPs who were arriving to participate in the workshop. One of those who was assaulted was the researcher Grégor Puppinck of the European Center for Law and Justice (ECLJ). A video of the attack was viewed more than 6 million times on Instagram, provoking widespread condemnation.
European pro-lifers are not allowed to come within 50 meters of an abortion facility. People in some European countries have been jailed for “silently praying” outside a clinic. Yet at the same time, violent activists were not only allowed to enter the EU Parliament building, but to actually harass and assault MPs and researchers inside.
I have been in that building many times, and have seen firsthand how difficult it is to pass through security. The group of radical feminist protesters must have had inside help to get in and carry out their action.
Why would these feminists attack these MPs and social researchers who only wanted to present at a workshop?
Obviously because they were abortion fanatics who do not tolerate differing views. Moreover, they did not want the truth about abortion to be exposed. Among the speakers at the workshop were two women who had been victimized by abortion. They were there to give their testimonies and expose the lies that surround this crime.
Grégor Puppinck of the European Center for Law and Justice (ECLJ), who himself presented a devastating report against the My Voice, My Choice, said:
“These authentic and courageous voices refute the prevailing discourse. They show that preventing abortion means protecting, supporting, and empowering. This is precisely what certain members of parliament sought to prevent before our event.”
Pro-lifers were not intimidated by the feminist assault and carried on with the workshop, at which the ECLJ report was presented and discussed. This revealed that behind this supposedly grassroots initiative were no fewer than 250 different organizations.
While most of the organizations provided no public information about their funding, 51 did. Of these, 20 admitted to receiving money from foundations linked to George Soros, while 19 admitted to receiving money from the EU itself.
In other words, it was the globalist elites themselves who were funding this “citizen’s initiative.”
The closure of USAID is hitting the abortion world hard at a global level. The cutoff has affected all of them, and they are scrambling for support from other sources, and creating new abortion networks.
This is what PRI has been highlighting for months: that abortion networks are a deeply entrenched reality in the promotion of abortion.
Grégor Puppinck stressed, “The massive funding network of the abortion lobby [supported] by major globalist foundations, such as the Open Society, the Gates, Ford, and Rockefeller foundations, and Planned Parenthood International. It is also funded by the European Union and the United Nations.”
Both the ECLJ and PRI will continue to expose these dangerous abortion networks, striving to be the voice of ordinary people who, like those in Slovenia, want laws defending Life, not destroying it.
