With 336 votes in favor and 136 against, the European Parliament urged last Thursday, April 11, 2024, for European institutions to include this so-called "right" to abortion in the fundamental rights. This increases its declared disregard for the most vulnerable Europeans, those who have no voice or vote, are not wanted, or have some type of disability while still in their mothers' wombs. At the same time, it grants mothers the license to end the lives of their children, by labeling this crime, rebranded as "termination of pregnancy," a "right."

40 Days for Life International vehemently condemns this legislative drift and calls on Europeans and the entire international community to pray for the eradication of abortion and for the conversion of all those who, in one way or another, support or collaborate with abortion.

More than ever, the irrationality of a part of the political class that must be countered with a spiritual and cultural battle is palpable.

The measure implies delving deeper into the progressive suicide of European society, which already records the lowest birth rates in its history and increasingly needs immigrants to cover the labor market.

It also attempts to silence civil and religious pro-life associations by censoring their freedom of speech. It is not just a frontal attack on life as a gift, but on the most fundamental civil rights. It is an attack against democracy itself. A twisted freedom is brandished precisely to suppress the real one.

Reason and universal values have ceased to be the criterion for decision-making in the European chamber. It is well known that calling abortion a "right" is incompatible with the right to life, which is prior and superior to all others, incompatible with the science that unequivocally affirms that human life begins at conception, and also incompatible with non-discrimination and equal treatment (as it subsidiarily unprotected the unwanted humans, those who might or do have a disability, or those who are simply discarded for any subjective reason).

This resolution inhumanely ignores the suffering and torture to which fetuses in gestation are subjected when aborted. And it does so aided by the obfuscating terminology created by international abortionism with the "sexual and reproductive rights" to disguise the act of "violently killing an unborn baby" as compassion or empowerment.

The resolution of the European Parliament does not have immediate application, as a change in fundamental rights would require the unanimity of the member countries, and there are still 3 (Hungary, Malta, and Poland at least) that do not seem willing to facilitate it, despite having suffered financial pressures and punishments. However, it will be used to reinforce the pro-abortion discourse in national legislations, although they contravene and fail to comply with binding international treaties and agreements.

The Polish legal institute ORDO IURIS, in a document published shortly before the vote, has pointed out the blatant contradictions in this resolution:

• The supposed "right to abortion" is not in any binding international legislation.
• Numerous countries have opposed accepting the so-called "sexual and reproductive rights," which are nothing more than another euphemism to hide the business of abortion and eugenics, without any real legal basis.
• Even international treaties, like the one emanating from the International Conference on Cairo in 1994, assert that abortion cannot be promoted as a method of family planning and that states must act to limit it as much as possible.
• The European Union does not have competence over health policy, which belongs to the member states (articles 6 and 168 of the Treaty on the EU). It is therefore unacceptable to pressure states on this matter.
• The European Court of Human Rights has never limited the scope of Article 2 nor has it unprotected the unborn.
• The right to conscientious objection remains a fundamental right deriving from the freedom of conscience and religion and is protected by various national constitutions and by the Convention for the Protection of Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms, among others.

This is not the first time the EP has voted in favor of abortion. The previous occasions did not lead to any effective change in legislation at the European level.

It is striking that the EP's press release uses the discourse of left-wing groups, their neolinguistic concepts and euphemisms, and ignores the stance of the opposing deputies. The press office of the EP is supposed to behave neutrally in reporting resolutions and not act as a broadcaster of pro-abortion propaganda or of the political parties that spread it.