War Rages in Europe Over Rights of the Unborn

By Alex Newman

While abortion is legal throughout much of Europe, the public and elected officials in several countries – Ireland, Malta and Poland primarily – remain committed to protecting the right to life of unborn children.

But they are in a war, having to fight off big-spending lobby groups and transnational quasi-governmental institutions such as the European Court of Human Rights and the Council of Europe, which are working to establish abortion-on-demand everywhere. . . .

Other experts involved in the two landmark rulings and the pro-life cause agreed, expressing shock and dismay that European institutions were usurping powers in a stealthy effort to impose abortion.

“In these two cases, the court tried to favor greatly the expression and the freedom of the women, without directly confronting the state’s right to submit abortion to strict conditions,” noted Grégor Puppinck, director of the pro-life European Centre for Law and Justice, which regularly files briefs with the ECHR and has intervened on the issue in defense of the unborn.

“To that end, the court stated that if the state decides to authorize abortion, even exceptionally, it should create a coherent legal framework and a procedure allowing women to establish effectively their ‘right’ to abortion,” Puppinck continued. . . .

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