more ear stresses the importance of upholding the right to life against the dominant fashion

MADRID, 30 ( EUROPA PRESS)

Vice-Chairman of the EPP Group ( PPE) and MEP Jaime Mayor Oreja, has stressed Thursday the importance of upholding the right to life of the unborn “from the dominant fashion in Europe” and has asked the organizations ' provida ' will that not be embarrassed out to defend “a value shared by many thousands of Europeans”.

So has indicated it during a meeting of European associations of the life of the unborn, which was held in Brussels under the motto ' we resignamos not in defense of the unborn ' and that it has been sponsored by a group of several members from different political groups and thirty organizations from 22 EU countries have been involved in that.

Thus, along with the promoters of the initiative, Jaime Mayor Oreja and the Italian MEP, Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament, Carlo Casini, involving Polish MEP and also Vice-President of the PPE Group, Jan Olbrycht, Italian Mario Mauro, Miroslav Mikolasik and Anna Zaborska Slovaks; the Czech Zuzana Roithová, Hungarian Laszlo Surjan, Slovene Alojz Peterle; Germans Martin KaslerPeter Liese and Bernd Posselt; Polish MEP of the conservative and reformist European (ECR) Konrad Szymanski group and the liberal group (ALDE), Hannu Takkula. Finnish

“It is an unpublished meeting by the dimension of the organizers and the dimension of the summoned and behind it is fundamentally the essential idea of not resign in respect of which means a dominant fashion in Europe of contempt for life, contempt for the rights of thing not infants, and with the feeling that this new time that we live requires more than ever a strengthening of our core values and the first” “theirs is the right to life”, said Mayor Oreja.

As it has been explained, the aim is also, “the desire to introduce a change, a change in attitude, a change in trend when it comes to not be ashamed to defend values shared by many Europeans”.

“We hope that this meeting be institutionalized and that every year we have summoned increasingly more MEPs with that diagnosis of all the European institutions and associations that defend the right to life in these institutions”, has been added.

Each of the participating associations – including some Spanish as a right to live and the family policy Institute – has made a diagnosis of the situation of the right to life in the various countries of the EU and of initiatives being taken in each of them.

European citizen initiative

For his part, the Italian MEP and Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs of the European Parliament, Carlo Casini, has announced the submission within brief term of a European civic initiative “in defense of human life”, taking advantage that the possibility of using this formula so that citizens claim the release of European legislation in certain matters if they have the support of more than one million will enter into force on 1 April signatures from at least seven countries of the EU.

Casini has explained that this will be a “popular initiative” that will not be headed by MEPs and for creating an organizing Committee to collect the required signatures. Has also indicated that the title of the initiative will be ' one of US ', which corresponds “to the title of the report of the National Committee of bioethics (Italian) on the status of the human embryo”.

“In essence, this initiative seek that the European institutions interpreted the right to life and respect for human dignity that are in the treaties from the moment of conception and, consequently, in the use of the funds at its disposal in the field of health, in the field of aid to development or scientific research does not serve the destruction of unborn human beings”, has been completed.