"Extremist" organisations ask EPF where conspiracy comes from
Paul Coleman. Photo ADF International
European Union
It seems that the organisations that were branded as "extremist" in the recent EPF report are not impressed by the findings. They fight back and ask: where does your money come from? And: are you not circulating a conspiracy theory?
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ADF
Paul Coleman, director of ADF International in Vienna, sees in the report an attempt to “silence” opponents under the cloak of academic research. “Despite presenting itself as a neutral parliamentary forum, the EPF is a well-funded activist network receiving millions each year from abortion activist groups such as IPPF, American donors including the Gates Foundation, and various taxpayer bodies such as the European Commission and multiple governments. EPF targets ADF International because our legal advocacy effectively defends life, parental rights, free expression, and other fundamental freedoms across the globe.
Rather than counter our arguments, EPF seeks to block Christian and conservative voices from engaging in important public debates. The more they try to silence us and other like-minded organisations working to defend fundamental freedoms, the clearer it becomes that our work is making a difference in Europe and beyond.”
ECLJ
Grégor Puppinck, director of European Centre for Legal Justice: “This report is clearly anti-Christian and is strongly biased. It lacks scientific evidence and mixes everything up. The only point is that they are justifying their own activities”, Puppinck says about the new EPF report.
He refers to his earlier writings about the EPF as a creation of the IPPF and Planned Parenthood. “Those organisations started with a radical eugenic and racist agenda. The aim was population reduction. The EPF also supported China’s one-child policy. Let it not pretend to be a defender of human rights.”
ECPP and SGP
According to MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen (both for SGP and ECPP), every life matters, including unborn life. “Organisations with the same commitment should have received a big applause from Neil Datta. Instead, he paints them as dangerous extremists. By doing so, he is siding with those who put women’s rights above the vulnerable life in the womb.
Let us be glad that there are people in the US who recognise that unborn life deserves protection. The accusation about funding from the US is highly hypocritical. Datta’s own pro-abortion lobby club in Brussels appears to be primarily funded by financial contributions from the US. He does not mention that. These contributions come from Bill Gates, George Soros and large pharmaceutical companies. He not only pays his own salary from this, but also that of 10 other lobbyists who lobby the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Member States on a daily basis for the relaxation of abortion legislation. With this book, he is trying to silence any pro-life voice and any opposition. But I, and other colleagues in the European Parliament, will continue to be the voice of the unborn.”
Sallux: Conspiracy theory
Johannes de Jong (director of Sallux, the ECPP’s think tank) refers to a ‘modern conspiracy theory’ in the EPF report. “No one has ever contacted us to ask what we do and why.
My impression is that they have an opinion and are projecting it onto our work. They are creating the impression that we have a hidden agenda that we want to push through. Yet, all our work is entirely transparent.
I am looking at this with bewilderment. We are linked to people who once had contact with people we had contact with. Guilty by association by association. That cannot be taken seriously. As far as gender is concerned, if there is one organisation that has called for equal treatment of women in Syria, Iraq and Iran, it is ours. I have heard nothing about this from left-liberal clubs.
Portraying pro-life as anti-gender is a form of polarisation that we cannot afford in Europe. In the EU, we need to have a conversation about our differences.
Telling yet another story about dangerous people who want to seize power is, of course, just a conspiracy theory. Do you know how many MEPs the ECPP has? No more than four. How you could take over Europe with that is a mystery to me.”
CCI
Mr. Henk-Jan van Schothorst from Christian Council International (CCI) says it is good to look what the source of this report is. "Who is saying this, what do they stand for, and who is paying for this investment? And then you see that people often say what they are themselves.
If you see the list of EPF funders, you see the sources of public and private funding. Organisations such as Planned Parenthood, Bill & Melinda Gates and Soros' Open Society put me on high alert, not to mention the other supporting corporate funds.
When you see that they also receive public funding from international organisations such as the WHO, the EU and UN agencies, it becomes clear that these organisations have taken an ideological turn. They no longer work as an executive body serving the many conservative member states, but in favour of a left-liberal agenda of unelected bureaucratic elites.
That is the real news of this study: a new wave of government-sponsored bureaucratic extremism. It is directed against people and organisations that still take the trouble to stand up for norms and values and defend civilisation against the chaos and moral bankruptcy of societies, which organisations such as the EPF represent."
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