While about 200 pro-life people demonstrated outside, the MEPs adopted an alternative document offered by the Group of the European People’s Party (EPP Group), which is made up mainly of conservative and Christian Democrat MEPs. The “Report on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights,” put forward by Portuguese Socialist MEP Edite Estrela called abortion a human right and also attacked conscientious objection for healthcare professionals.

After the vote, the BBC reported that a “visibly angry” Estrela “takes to the floor and says that ‘hypocrisy has prevailed over the rights of women’. She is booed by some sections of the parliament but keeps going, saying that ‘extremists’ have prevailed.”

One leading Brussels-based pro-life and family group called it a “historic setback for the abortion lobby and all their related stakeholders.” Sophia Kuby, head of European Dignity Watch, said it was notable that the report was ultimately rejected, given the “well-oiled machineries,” and “huge EU-funded budgets” that grant the abortion and homosexualist lobbies “great power of impact in political agenda setting.”

Kuby also noted the effectiveness of the public campaign, a rarity in European Union politics that is regularly accused of shutting the public out of debates. It was mainly conducted through social media that saw 4,500 people joining the Facebook page Estrala No—Respect Subsidiarity within 72 hours of it being set up on December 6. The European Humanist Federation reported December 3 that MEPs had received 80,000 emails asking them to defeat the proposal.

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