Left in panic. The European Parliament aims at well organised pro-life lobbying

pch24.pl 1 week ago

Conservative spiritual groups, associated with American think tanks and spiritual organizations – all opposed to the "right to abortion" – were to peculiarly like Brussels, complains the portal euractiv.com. average adds that these organisations "are increasingly utilizing the capital of the EU to push extremist anti-abortion views, blurring the boundary between faith, lobbying and politics".

These groups are part of a "well-funded conservative movement against abortion rights" gaining importance in Brussels, extending their presence close the EU's centres of power.

The average recalled the visit of the Evangelical preacher Franklin Graham, who in September last year was a star organized in the Brussels ING Arena "Festival of Hope". Graham, a multimillionaire, inherited the evangelization empire from Father Billy Graham. He opposes abortion and is to have close ties with Donald Trump.

As many as 13,000 people attended the event. As euractiv.com suggests, “Graham did not come to Brussels just to preach the gospel. On the eve of the event, speaking in a tiny conference area of the Brussels hotel, he suggested a wider mission." It is about a greater commitment to a policy that cannot be escaped erstwhile the fundamental rights of believers are attacked," explained the American.

The portal comments that "the appearance of Graham in Brussels is simply a visible sign of a wider trend: the increasing assertiveness of an ultraconservative movement that seeks to push extremist attitudes on abortion and household policy across Europe".

This is worrying to the proponents of the progressive agenda, that the American preacher is to play an crucial function and is "only 1 of the links in the global spiritual and conservative think tanks, consultants and lobbying groups", many of which have late opened or run their offices close the EU institutions, thus aiming at "an end to the border between religion and politics".

citing the data of the European Parliamentary Forum on Sexual and Reproduction Rights, euractiv.com reports that the financing of organisations against "reproductive rights" in Europe was to increase by almost a 4th between 2019 and 2022 to EUR 230 million.

It was pointed out that the most crucial entities of this movement include the Catholic prelate Opus Dei and the Hungarian Mathias Corvinus College (MCC), politically and financially linked to Viktor Orbán's government. They are to advance "family values". In addition, the American Heritage Foundation is to be increasingly active in Brussels. All anti-abortion groups keep "close ties to right-wing political parties, American evangelical networks and the Catholic Church".

For a very long time it was a very strong, very present, yet invisible lobby – complains Sophie in ’t Veld, erstwhile Dutch Euro MP, chair of the working group of the European Parliament on reproductive wellness and the interparty platform on the separation of the Church from the state.

The erstwhile EU MP argues that these institutions "as opposed to another NGOs who effort to be visible, hide themselves". We are further informed that the leaders of the influential American think tank – Heritage Foundation – were to meet 5 times in Brussels with Euro MPs, including “representatives of the European utmost right (sic!), specified as Marion Maréchal, a politician of the French National Unity”.

Among another groups that rise concerns about progressive environments is besides a dynamic think tank law Alliance defence Freedom global (ADF), which was created in 2014 to "against persecution of Christians in the world".

Euractiv.com notes that between April 2024 and June 2025, "the ADF lobbyists met at least 13 times with members of the nationalist Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament, as well as with the European Conservatives and Reformists and the centre-right MEPs (EPP)".

Not believing that conservative organisations were based solely on private donations, the portal indicated that at least 1 of them benefited from EU funding. It is an American organization called planet Youth Alliance (WYA), which the EC was about to reverse funding. This organisation is known among progressive environments from the "spreading of false information on abortion and fertility". He declares that he is simply a secular group, while he is to advance the Evangelical views of household politics and another subjects, which are increasingly the subject of intense debate in the European Parliament.

An example of this is the adoption in December of a non-binding resolution calling for "free, equal and secure" access to abortion. The vote was intended to exposure "deep divisions in the House". Against this resolution were 68 MEPs from the EPP, the whole, as Euroactiv.com defines, "nationalist and far right".

The environment was to call on the Commission not to take any action to advance abortion and stressed that this was a substance of national competence alone. In addition, many Euro MPs argued that access to the killing of conceived children would only deepen the already disastrous demographic situation in Europe.

However, the portal cites the citizens' initiative “My Voice, My Choice” which demands easier access to the killing of unborn children and is advocated by over a million people. This is the threshold that is expected to oblige the European Commission to consider possible measures to support access to abortion. In addition, the average adds that this shameful act is to support "about 2 thirds of EU citizens", although "there are inactive clear national divisions – from 95% in Sweden to only 56% in Poland".

Camille Gervais' lawyer at the Center for Reproduction Rights, based in Geneva, complains that "although the direct influence of Brussels activists remains limited, the withdrawal of the US from constitutional protection of abortion had a "unquestionable impact" on Europe".

The pro-abortion environments are clearly afraid about the organised anti-abortion movement and the return of government to combat the killing of unborn children. Importantly, they fear public debate about abortion and the situation that occurred in the US, where the ultimate Court abolished the national “right to abortion”.

Abortion supporters are horrifying all reports of spiritual dissertation in Europe, as Franklin Graham would point to.

Source: euractiv.com
AS

Read Entire Article