The European Commission will face the question: is abortion a "health certificate"?

The European Citizens' Initiative “My Voice, My Choice” puts the European Commission before 1 of the most crucial questions in the debate on life and law: can abortion be considered a “health certificate”? This fundamental solution concerns not only the question of funding, but besides the meaning of the words "law" and "health" and the limits of EU competence towards associate States.

The European Commission has announced that the decision on the European Citizens' Initiative "My Voice, My Choice" is postponed to Thursday, February 26. On that day, it will be decided whether the EU will finance the alleged "safe and accessible abortion care" or whether it will stay with the existing policy to respect associate States' competences.

Normalising abortion

The "My Voice, My Choice" initiative collected more than 1.2 million endorsements and gained the approval of part of the Euro-Parliamentary. Its aim is to recognise abortion as a "health certificate" financed by the Union budget. specified actions not only interfere with national law, but besides usage the language of euphemisms to normalize abortion. In EU and UN documents, abortion and fertility issues are described in a technical, neutral language, e.g. as "termination of pregnance" or "sexual and reproductive health".

It's not specified neutrality. The usage of euphemisms is intended to hide the real nature of abortion and gradually normalize it, and language becomes an ideological tool that soothes the moral assessment of the interruption of the child's life.

The pressures of pro-abortion environments continued until the last fewer moments. Yesterday, left-wing Euro MPs were collecting signatures under a letter to the president of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, calling not to reject the initiative. At the same time, pro-life movements collected nearly 60,000 signatures of opposition to the task within a week.

PiS MEP Bogdan Rzoniec points out that "arrhythmias in the EU institutions work in favour of abortion environments, this does not prejudge their triumph yet". As he points out, the Commission may reject the initiative not for moral reasons but for deficiency of financial resources. The key question remains whether the EC will press the pro-abortion lobby.

The point of the dispute is whether abortion can be considered a "health service"

Pregnancy is not a illness and the intended deprivation of the life of a kid cannot be treated as a medical service. Exceptions apply only to the situation of a direct threat to the life of a woman, where intervention by a parent can inadvertently lead to the failure of a child. specified cases are regulated in each EU country and do not require the financing of abortion or abortion tourism.

Financing abortion from the EU budget would mean interfering with national life protection systems and undermining the rule of cooperation between the Union and associate States. The dispute around "My voice, my choice" is so not just about money, but about the fundamental question of the meaning of the words "law" and "health" and the limits of EU competence towards associate States.

Every child, even in the prenatal period, deserves protection, and society has a work to defend the weakest. The normalization of abortion through euphemisms and the financing of "abortion tourism" undermines the foundations of civilization based on Christian values. It is worth remembering that real support for women is not about taking their children's lives away, but about creating conditions for decent motherhood and real aid for families.

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Source: opoka.org.pl, myvoice-mychoice.org, federationzycia.pl