Aid in Dying & Abortion: Between Victory & Defeat

On February 25, 2026, the French National Assembly adopted in second reading the bill on the right to aid in dying by 299 votes to 226. The following day, the European Commission issued its decision on the European citizens' initiative “My Voice, My Choice.” Within a few hours, we had achieved a “half-victory” and suffered a “half-defeat.”

The defeat concerns euthanasia. The French National Assembly adopted a dangerous and irrational text. But it is a half defeat because opposition to this law is growing within the Assembly and among the public. Between May 2025 and February 2026, 16 abstaining deputies joined the ranks of the opposition, and four other deputies were persuaded to reverse their vote and join the opposition.

No member of the National Assembly who voted against euthanasia in May 2025 was persuaded to vote in favor of it during the second reading! We are therefore gaining ground and must continue to raise awareness.

Your action with the abstaining MPs has therefore been beneficial. Please continue to write to them directly! You can congratulate those who have joined the opposition to the bill (list of voters here), and above all write to the last 37 abstainers to open their eyes to the danger of this bill (here is a list of emails here and a template letter to send in French).

The bill has now been sent back to the Senate for further review beginning on April 1. The Senate can still oppose it, paving the way for a Joint Committee meeting and then another vote...

The process is still long: nothing is lost. The more time passes, the more lawmakers and public opinion become aware of the absurdity of this bill. So, keep alerting them to the content of the bill! You will find here a detailed analysis of the 14 problems with the proposed law.

The Commission wants to impose funding for abortion “tourism”

The European Commission ruled on the request from the pro-abortion initiative “My Voice, My Choice.” This European petition called for the creation of a special European fund to finance the travel of women wishing to have an abortion in a country with more lenient legislation.

The European Parliament supported this initiative in December 2025, with 358 votes in favor, 202 against, and 79 abstentions (details of the votes on the last page).

“My Voice, My Choice,” which gathered 1.2 million signatures, was intended as a response to the pro-life initiative “One of Us,” which gathered nearly 2 million signatures and which I had the honor of chairing.

“My Voice, My Choice” received political and financial support from the international abortion lobby, as we revealed in the European Parliament.

The European Commission was unable to fully satisfy the demands of “My Voice, My Choice” due to resistance from conservative European governments and because abortion is not within the EU's jurisdiction. In this regard, it agreed with the arguments that the ECLJ, among others, developed in a letter addressed to Ursula von der Leyen.

However, the European Commission circumvented these obstacles and decided to allow Member States to tap into the European Social Fund to finance intra-European “abortion tourism” channels.

For example, the Netherlands could have the European Union reimburse the costs incurred by a Polish woman to come there for an abortion (airfare, hotel, etc.). This system, which will operate on a voluntary basis, will turn the countries that are least protective of human life into hubs for abortion in Europe, at the taxpayer's expense.

This decision by the Commission is a misuse of the Social Fund, which was never intended for this purpose. The ECLJ will analyze this decision in more detail, and is preparing to challenge it in court.

Let's not allow Europe to promote abortion.

What Europe needs is not to facilitate abortion with public money, but on the contrary, to support motherhood and families. Without children, the European population is condemning itself.

An immense effort is needed to bring society out of this “culture of death” that leads us to choose euthanasia and abortion.