EU Parliament’s Pro-Life Event Exposes Grave Omissions in Defense of Life

The Catholic News Agency article from November 17, 2025 reports on an October 15 pro-life gathering at the European Parliament organized by the European Centre for Law and Justice and One of Us federation. The event featured testimonies from women who regretted their abortions, while the article contrasts this with the Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality voting 26-12 to support the “My Voice, My Choice” initiative promoting EU-funded cross-border abortions. The piece notes that this initiative received 923,028 euros from pro-abortion foundations, while the earlier pro-life “One of Us” initiative had far less funding despite gathering more signatures.

Naturalism Masquerading as Moral Concern

The article frames abortion debates entirely within a naturalistic paradigm of “women’s health” and “choice,” with the pro-life response limited to emotional trauma narratives. This reductionism ignores Quas Primas (1925), where Pius XI established that “Christ reigns over individuals, families, and states” and that all legislation must conform to divine law. The absence of any reference to abortion as intrinsic evil (Canon 1398, 1917 Code) or the eternal consequences for souls exposes the modernist captivity of the participants.

“Six women shared testimonies about their personal experiences with abortion — stories of regret, trauma, and long-term emotional consequences”

This therapeutic language reduces moral evil to psychological harm, sidestepping Pius XI’s condemnation in Casti Connubii (1930): “those who hold the reins of government should not forget that it is the duty of public authority…to defend the lives of the innocent.” The article’s silence on the state’s duty to punish abortionists underlines the event’s theological bankruptcy.

False Dichotomy of Competing “Rights”

The narrative pits “pro-choice” against “pro-life” as equally valid democratic positions, directly contradicting Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors which condemns:

#15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which…he shall consider true”
#77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State”

The article’s description of “My Voice, My Choice” receiving institutional support while “One of Us” was ignored exemplifies Leo XIII’s warning in Libertas Praestantissimum (1888): “when once man’s reason is shaken…the State will be made to deny that it is bound by the divine law.” Nowhere does the event or article reference Canon 1374 forbidding Catholics from supporting abortion under pain of excommunication.

Ecumenism of Error

The ecumenical composition of participants – including non-Catholic MEPs and organizations – betrays the false irenicism condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907). Proposition 65 of that decree rejects the notion that “contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into…liberal Protestantism” – precisely the posture adopted by event organizers who treat abortion as a policy debate rather than spiritual warfare.

“The committee’s endorsement…reflects a belief among left-leaning groups that abortion is ‘inherently a right and a social good'”

This critique ignores that the EU’s very existence as a secular humanist body violates Pius XI’s teaching in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” The event’s failure to condemn the EU itself as anti-Christic demonstrates complicity with the apostasy.

Satanic Subversion of Suffering

The article notes how women’s testimonies were ignored by parliamentary officials, but misses the demonic inversion at work. Pius XII warned in numerous allocutions that modern states seek “to break down the vital resistance of consciences to the attractions of error and evil.” This rejection of post-abortive women’s voices fulfills the prophecy of Lamentabili Sane (Proposition 24): “The Church is an enemy of the progress of…theological sciences.”

Nowhere does the article mention spiritual remedies – confession, penance, Eucharistic reparation – reducing these women’s anguish to fodder for policy debates. The event’s organizers thereby commit the error condemned in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ…are removed from laws and states, the foundations of authority are destroyed.”

Conclusion: Missing the Supernatural Battle

The entire discourse reflects the modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): reducing religion to “experience hidden beneath theology as an outward covering.” By framing abortion through secular human rights rather than divine judgment, both the EU parliamentarians and event organizers deny the Kingship of Christ. As Pius XI declared: “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor to Christ.” Until Catholic resistance names Antichrist structures instead of negotiating with them, such “pro-life” efforts remain cosmetic appeasement of the culture of death.

Source:
Historic pro-life event in EU Parliament addresses debate over cross-border abortion funding (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 17.11.2025