Make Your Voice Heard, Sign the Petition Now!
24 February 2026 – The EU intends to establish a fund that would pay travel and abortion costs for women who travel to another EU Member State to obtain an abortion. In response to this alarming plan, a European petition has been launched. The petition closes tomorrow, 25 February, so sign today via this link.
On 17 December 2025, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the European Commission to create an EU-funded system to cover travel expenses and abortion procedures for women who wish to travel from EU countries with stricter abortion laws to Member States with more liberal legislation. This resolution stems from the so-called European Citizens’ Initiative My Voice, My Choice, supported by the International Planned Parenthood Federation, IPPF. On 25 February, the EU Commissioners, including Wopke Hoekstra, will decide how to respond.
If this course is pursued, public funds will be used to facilitate the termination of unborn human life across borders and to bypass national laws intended to protect it. Given the current legislation, it is foreseeable that the Netherlands, where abortion is legally permitted up to 22 weeks of pregnancy, could become one of the principal destinations for this practice.
What contradicts the natural law cannot be made lawful by any human law.
Human life does not derive its dignity from recognition by the state, but from its origin in God. According to the classical teaching of the lex naturalis, the natural law, the first principle of moral action is that good is to be done and pursued, and evil avoided. This natural law is not a human convention, but the participation of rational creatures in the eternal law of God, the lex aeterna. Among the first and most fundamental natural goods is the preservation of innocent human life. Therefore, human life is not at the disposal of political will or legislative decision. The state does not create this right, it is bound to recognize and protect it. The deliberate killing of an innocent person is not merely a political issue, but an act disordered in itself, an intrinsic evil, meaning an act that by its very nature can never be justified by circumstances, intentions, or legal approval.
When the termination of unborn life is presented as a right to be guaranteed by institutions, the order of justice is reversed. What is rooted by God in human nature as a fundamental good, the right to life, cannot be abolished or redefined by human authority. No positive law, no majority, and no political structure can alter the moral character of an act. The killing of a defenseless and innocent human being remains an injustice, even when permitted by civil law or publicly funded.