Europe is very efficient these days.
Can’t access abortion in your counattempt? No problem. There’s a proposal on the table to assist you travel somewhere else; courtesy of EU funds.
Frequent flyer miles not included. Moral clarity optional.
The My Voice, My Choice campaign wants the European Union to finance cross-border abortions for women living in countries like Malta (where abortion is illegal).
It’s framed as solidarity.
As fairness.
As healthcare access.
But here’s the sentence we keep avoiding:
Abortion finishs a human life.
Not a metaphor. Not a slogan. Not a philosophical abstraction. A human being.
And yet, in policy language, it somehow becomes a mobility issue.
Malta has stated, through its law, that abortion is not a social good. You can disagree with that. But the new European solution appears to be simple:
If a counattempt won’t allow it, we’ll just fund it elsewhere.
Keep your conscience-currency. We’ll handle the transfer.
And once abortion becomes EU-funded across borders, access is defined not by Malta’s limits but by the most permissive regimes in Europe. In some member states, abortion is legally available well into the later stages of pregnancy under broad interpretations of health.
You may not agree. You may not approve.
But you will contribute, nevertheless.
That’s not tolerance. That’s forcing complicity — with a receipt attached.
And here’s the irony nobody wants to state out loud:
The unborn child has no passport.
No vote.
No microphone in Brussels.
They have no marketing campaign with pastel graphics and empowering fonts.
The Abortion Lobby, however, have branding, infrastructure; and remarkably well-organised financial strategies.
We are notified this is about women’s rights.
But when one person’s “right” is secured by finishing another person’s life, we are no longer talking about equality. We are talking about power.
We are notified this is progress.
But progress that requires silence from the one who dies is a very curious definition of the word.
Thus, Malta’s “No Abortion Tourism” petition isn’t anti-Europe. It isn’t anti-woman. It is anti-complicity.
It is the refusal to pretfinish that a moral question disappears once it crosses a border.
There is a difference between disagreement and finishorsement. And there is certainly a difference between solidarity and subsidising the finishing of a human life.
If Europe truly believes in diversity, then moral dissent must be allowed to exist; even when that dissent protects someone who cannot speak.
Otherwise, “unity” launchs to view suspiciously like uniformity.
And some of us are not prepared to book that trip.
Mariana Debono is a Philosophy PhD Candidate, Poet and Writer.
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