Citizens’ Initiative: In the EU there is “too much democracy, too little bureaucracy”, according to disgruntled anti-life lobby

By J.C. von Krempach, J.D. | November 6, 2013

The overwhelming success for the European Citizens’ Initiative “One of Us“, which calls for the EU to stop funding abortions, continues provoking strange (and at times rather laughable) reactions from a shocked and angered abortionist lobby.

The latest such comment stems from the website of the Humanistischer Pressedienst (i.e. the “Humanist Press Service”), a German-language internet outlet of radical atheists. “Humanism” in Europe is a self-chosen euphemism used by militant opponents of human rights (such as the right to life, the freedom of religion, the freedom of conscience, etc.) to describe their anti-human world views.

In a recent post on the Pressedienst’s website, the defeat of the controversial “Estrela Report” in the European Parliament is framed as “a scandal involving the ‘One of Us’ initiative”. Obviously, the “humanists” find it scandalous that anyone not sharing their views should be allowed to utter his opinions, or to win a vote in parliament.

Further on in the post one can read that, if a citizen’s initiative such as “One of Us” can be so successful, the remedy is to change the rules for citizen’s initiative in order to prevent this from happening again. The current rules for such initiatives are “too simple, and too un-bureaucratic”.

Thus, while the overwhelming majority of citizens and politicians are concerned about the EU’s democratic deficit, the anti-life lobby is concerned about too much democracy. Of course, this is not surprising: rejection of human rights and rejection of democracy go hand in hand, and one would never have expected any other attitude from the self-proclaimed candle bearers of “enlightenment”. But it is new, and quite revelatory, that they make such statements in public. Their annoyance at discovering that their ideology is not shared by many must be very great.

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