EU FEMM Committee votes 26-12 to fund abortions across borders and fight pro-life groups, invoking “European values” while ignoring the unborn.
Newsroom (11/11/2025 Gaudium Press ) In a move that lays bare the ideological direction of the current European Parliament, the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM) adopted on 5 November 2025, by 26 votes to 12, a draft resolution calling for the European Union to finance abortions performed in other member states and to intensify the fight against what it labels “anti-gender movements.”
The text, rooted in the “My Voice My Choice” European Citizens’ Initiative backed by more than 1.2 million signatures and some 300 abortion-rights organizations, seeks to establish a voluntary financial mechanism whereby taxpayers in pro-life countries such as Poland or Malta would indirectly subsidize abortions for women traveling to more permissive member states.
Nika Kovač, a leading figure in the campaign, stated bluntly: “Polish women have a good network of NGOs to help them travel and receive treatment, but these procedures are expensive. What we want is for neither the NGOs nor the women to have to pay.” In other words, the European budget—fed by every member state without exception—should foot the bill.
Presented by its proponents as a simple matter of equality and public health, the resolution invokes the “European values” of non-discrimination and respect for “bodily integrity.” Yet it conspicuously refuses to extend those same values to the child in the womb, whose right to life is treated as non-existent. The text equates public funding of abortion with funding cancer screening, an analogy that has provoked outrage among medical professionals and ethicists who see in it a grotesque inversion of the very purpose of medicine.
The resolution goes further. It explicitly calls for the enshrinement of abortion as a fundamental right in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and floats the possibility of treaty change to impose it. While paying lip service to national competence in health matters, it simultaneously pressures member states to align their legislation with the most radical abortion regimes on the continent.
Perhaps most chilling is the committee’s determination to “counter anti-gender movements.” In the Orwellian lexicon now common in certain Brussels circles, this phrase has come to mean any organization—Catholic, evangelical, Orthodox, Muslim, or secular—that defends the natural family, the right to life of the unborn, or the reality of biological sex. Under the banner of “freedom,” the resolution seeks to marginalize and silence these voices.
Ten years ago, the One of Us citizens’ initiative gathered nearly 1.9 million validated signatures—the largest such initiative ever validated at the time—calling for an end to EU funding of activities that destroy human embryos. The European Commission and Parliament ignored it entirely. Today, an initiative with 600,000 fewer signatures is being fast-tracked, its demands treated as a moral imperative.
The draft resolution will now proceed to a public hearing on 2 December before a plenary vote, possibly before the end of the year. Pro-life members of the European Parliament, together with national governments still committed to the defense of life, face a decisive battle.
As the Church has consistently taught—from Evangelium Vitae to Samaritanus Bonus—the direct and voluntary taking of innocent human life is always a grave moral evil. No appeal to “European values,” no invocation of “health,” and no amount of bureaucratic euphemism can alter that truth.
What is unfolding in Strasbourg and Brussels is not merely a policy disagreement; it is a civilizational choice. Europe must decide whether the weakest among us will continue to enjoy the protection that is their due, or whether the continent that once proclaimed the inviolable dignity of every human person will now enshrine the right to eliminate the most vulnerable as one of its founding principles.
The vote that approaches is therefore a moment of truth—for the European Parliament, for the Union itself, and for every citizen who still believes that Europe’s soul is worth saving.
- Raju Hasmukh with files from Tribune Chretienne
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