Dear MEP,
Ahead of Wednesday’s vote concerning My Voice, My Choice, I respectfully urge you to support counter-resolution B10-0557/2025.
Should this counter-resolution be adopted, the My Voice, My Choice resolution—initiated by Ms Abir Al-Sahlani and approved by the FEMM Committee—would automatically fall. This is a matter of significant legal and institutional importance.
The draft resolution seeks to require EU funds to cover abortion-related costs, including transport, accommodation, and the medical professionals performing abortions. Such a proposal raises serious concerns, including:
- The initiative forms part of an ideological campaign aimed at mischaracterising abortion as a human right.
- Abortion is not recognised as a human right under international law.
- The right to life is a fundamental human right, and abortion directly undermines this principle.
- The European Union has no legal competence to regulate or influence abortion policy.
- Attempts to provide abortion as an EU-funded service violate EU treaties and infringe upon the sovereign rights of Member States.
- The European Court of Human Rights has consistently affirmed that there is no right to abortion under the European Convention.
- The proposal risks violating freedom of conscience and the right to conscientious objection, which are protected under international law.
For these reasons, I respectfully ask you to uphold the principle of subsidiarity and prevent any further expansion of EU competences into areas that clearly and legally belong to the Member States.
I therefore strongly encourage you to vote in favour of counter-resolution B10-0557/2025.
Please note that the Maltese public will be kept informed of the outcome of this vote.
Kind regards,
Dr Miriam Sciberras
BChD (Hons) MA Bioethics
CEO
Life Network Foundation Malta
E: ceo@lifenetwork.eu
M: 00356 99446174
