“One of Us” now officially confirmed as the most successful European Citizens’ Initiative!

The official process of validation having been completed, it is now confirmed that the European Citizens’ Initiative “One of Us”, which requests the EU to ensure, when acting within its competence, to protect the right to life as from the moment of conception (and hence to refrain from spending EU developing aid money on the funding of abortions in third countries, or to finance research programs that imply the destruction of human embryos), has been the most successful of all such initiatives so far.

The score is:

• 1,742,156 signatures for “One of Us”

• 1,659,543 signatures for “Right2Water”, an initiative that requests the EU to abstain from any legislation that would lead to the privatization of public utility providers in the area of water.
With regard to both initiatives a small proportion of signatures have been declared invalid on formal grounds (e.g. if the birth date of a signatory was missing, or if his address could not be verified).

It is now hoped that the EU institutions will give due weight to this impressive result, which places the right to life atop European citizens’ concerns.

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