Speak Up Against the Harmful and Misleading “My Voice, My Choice” EU Campaign
Join others who believe that women in Europe deserve real care and support, not abortion. Contact your EU representatives and tell them to say NO to “My Voice, My Choice.”
Action steps at the bottom of the page—please don’t miss them & share with fellow pro-life EU citizens!
A new EU-wide campaign called “My Voice, My Choice” has collected over 1 million signatures and is asking the EU to fund travel for abortions. While it claims to support women’s rights, it is relying on a distorted vision of empowerment, one that frames the killing of the unborn as a right.
The initiative demands that the European Union fund abortions abroad for women who cannot obtain them in their home countries. For example, a woman in Hungary beyond the legal time limit could receive EU taxpayer money to travel to the Netherlands for a late-term abortion.
The campaign has made the false claim on Instagram that, unless the EU passes this initiative, 20 million women could die from lack of access to abortion.
That’s extreme fear-mongering. They claim that any woman living in a European region with restrictive abortion laws, high conscientious objection, or no free state abortions lacks "safe" options—and thus risks "unsafe" ones. In reality:
The vast majority of these women never seek an abortion in the first place;
Europe’s relatively high wealth and living standards make maternal deaths (from any cause) extremely rare;
Multiplying that microscopic risk by millions of women, who mostly don’t want abortions, is fearmongering.
Weighing in on the campaign, Rebecca Oas, Research Director at C-Fam, said, “What the campaign entirely leaves out (and wants you to forget):
The vast majority of abortions carried out in Europe are not due to maternal life or extreme health reasons at all;
The ones who face a far more credible risk of death are children in the womb, not the mothers who carry them.”
Yet, while this campaign frames a non-problem as a crisis, it risks creating a real one, by promoting the destruction of unborn lives and ignoring the deeper social and emotional wounds abortion leaves behind.
Meanwhile, the EU has cut back programmes that once supported mothers and families, even though the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights explicitly protects maternity and family life.
Several Members of Parliament (MEPs) have tabled a resolution urging the European Commission to back the “My Voice, My Choice” citizens’ initiative, and MEPs will vote on it in plenary. The real power, however, rests with the Commission, which will decide whether to act or to let the initiative die by March 2026.
📢 Act Now!
Contact Your EU Representatives:
Search your EU Members of Parliament in the EPP and Renew (RCR) groups
Email them and tell them: “Vote NO on the ‘My Voice, My Choice’ resolution in plenary.”
One-click email template → [click here]
Contact the EU Commission :
Email all EU Commissioners and tell them to REJECT the ‘My Voice, My Choice’ Initiative. Abortion is not a EU competence
List of EU Commissioners
One-click email template → [click here]
Please consider that the most effective way to reach EU commissioners is by mailing physical letters instead of emailing them. Below you can find the address:
European Commission
Rue de la Loi 200 1049
Brussels Belgium
Did you know?
One of Us, a coalition of over 50 pro-life NGOs, collected 1,897,588 signatures in 2014, nearly double the 1 million signatures of “My Voice, My Choice.” The initiative demanded that no EU money ever fund abortion-providing NGOs, embryo-destroying research, or abortifacient drugs in aid projects. On 28 May 2014, the Commission refused to act, stating: “The current funding rules are legal… no change is planned.”
If Brussels had no authority to weigh in on abortion in 2014, it has no authority to pay for cross-border abortions in 2026.
More Resources
Articles about pro-life actions against “My Voice, My Choice”
🗞 Abortion Debate Resurfaces at EU [C-Fam]
‘🗞 My Voice My Choice’ or Denial of Suffering? Europe’s Abortion Debate Reignites in Brussels [European Conservative]
🗞 Campaigners Tell EU: Stop Funding Abortion, Support Mothers Instead [European Conservative]