{"id":1544321,"date":"2022-07-08T10:49:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T14:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1544321"},"modified":"2022-07-08T10:49:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T14:49:13","slug":"hey-eu-mind-your-own-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hey-eu-mind-your-own-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey EU, Mind Your Own Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhey-eu-mind-your-own-business%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1544321&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/33846848194_b2ce464c05_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In a 324-155 vote this week, the European Union Parliament passed a resolution condemning the Supreme Court of the United States for overturning <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. This is now the second time the EU Parliament has denounced the United States over the legal decision, claiming it undermines \u201chuman rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abortion isn\u2019t even tangentially mentioned in the Constitution. But guess what? The European Union\u2019s constitution, with its 448 articles and more than 70,000 words micromanaging the continent\u2019s affairs, doesn\u2019t mention \u201cabortion\u201d anywhere, either. Abortion isn\u2019t a constitutional \u201cright\u201d in the EU. It isn\u2019t a constitutional \u201cright\u201d in any EU member state. There is no pan-European law dictating the issue of abortion. If terminating an unwanted child is a fundamental human right, as so many Europeans now claim, why did they forget to mention it in a constitution that was only ratified in 2004?<\/p>\n<p>It should also be noted that, for the foreseeable future, most U.S. states will have abortion laws that are laxer than those in most of Europe. The Czech Republic, Denmark, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Germany, France, and Spain all have tighter <a href=\"https:\/\/righttolife.org.uk\/what-are-the-abortion-time-limits-in-eu-countries\">restrictions<\/a> on abortion than Sith Lord Ron DeSantis\u2019s Florida. In Ukraine, a nation cleared for EU membership, and the bulwark of all world freedom, women must request abortions in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, unless the mother\u2019s health is in danger \u2014 just like in Russia. Even nations like the Netherlands and Sweden, where laws are somewhat more permissive, are still stricter than places like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/04\/the-most-radical-abortion-law-in-the-nation\/\">Colorado<\/a>, New York, or California.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course, even if European nations had policies that allowed abortions into the third trimester, as the Democrats are <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/11\/bipartisan-majority-rejects-radical-abortion-bill-pushed-by-senate-democrats\/\">pushing<\/a> to do nationally, or as many blue states already permit, it still wouldn\u2019t make any difference. One, because <em>Dobbs<\/em> did not make any ruling on abortion. Two, because we have no reason to look to Europe for moral guidance.<\/p>\n<p>Terminating the life of a baby because it is disabled or dying is a violation of basic human rights, and yet it happens with horrifying frequency in Europe \u2014 sometimes with the knowledge of the mother, sometimes without. 2002\u2019s Groningen Protocol <a href=\"https:\/\/cbc-network.org\/2008\/02\/pushing-infanticide\/\">protects<\/a> doctors who perform pediatric euthanasia \u2014 already widespread in Europe at the time of its passage. Two Lancet studies, for example, found that around 8 percent of all infants who die in the Netherlands are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/a\/2205\/\">killed by doctors<\/a>. But there is evidence that state doctors pressure women to kill unborn children with potential disabilities not only in nations with shoddy ethics, such as Belgium or the Netherlands, but across the continent. (I cover this topic in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&#038;qid=&#038;sr=\">my recent book<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>There are no genuine countervailing societal forces in Europe, no faith-based movements, powerful enough to spur a debate about the lack of ethical guardrails on life. Instead, government bureaucracies unilaterally decide what a life is worth. And often, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-51658631\">it\u2019s not worth much<\/a>. We have absolutely no reason to listen to any lectures from these people.<\/p>\n<p>But aside from all of that, it\u2019s none of Europe\u2019s business. A PBS story on the vote contends that the resolution \u201ccrystalized the anger seen in many of the EU\u2019s 27 member countries since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling on June 24.\u201d Who cares about their anger? After reading quotes from numerous European activists and parliamentarians, it\u2019s clear that most of them have no idea what <em>Dobbs<\/em> does or how the American system even works. (In their defense, it\u2019s also somewhat of a problem <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/status\/1545391618731216899\">among our own experts<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>If we had a proper president, he would be blasting the EU for involving itself in the domestic affairs of its generous patron. Because it\u2019s one thing for <em>us<\/em> to disagree on policy, and another to allow second-rate pseudo-democracies with long, bloody histories to reprimand our institutions for following the law. Has Congress ever condemned the domestic policy of any Western European nation, much less a legal decision? These nations are habitually undercutting religious freedom and free speech, and yet all our parliament does is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/freeloading-germany-is-a-terrible-ally\/\">send them more cash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books\u2014the most recent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Eurotrash-America-Reject-Failed-Continent\/dp\/0063066017\/\">Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent<\/a>. His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post, and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/\">@davidharsanyi<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 324-155 vote this week, the European Union Parliament passed a resolution condemning the Supreme Court of the United States for overturning Roe v. Wade. 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