The European Union is the vehicle of the leftist totalitarians. On Monday it succeeded in bringing down the Slovak government. As our regular readers will remember, a European Union advisory panel of legal experts issued a statement last December saying that medical professionals are not allowed to refuse to participate in abortions. According to the EU “Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights” doctors should sometimes be forced to perform abortions, even if they have conscientious objections, because the right to abort a child is an “international human right,” while the right to conscientious objection is not “unlimited.”

The statement of the EU legal experts [pdf] was drawn up in criticism of a proposed treaty between the Vatican and Slovakia, which included a guarantee that Catholic hospitals in Slovakia would not be legally obliged to “perform artificial abortions, artificial or assisted fertilizations, experiments with or handling of human organs, human embryos or human sex cells, euthanasia, cloning, sterilizations, [and] acts connected with contraception.” ~Paul Belien, The Brussels Journal

While we rightly side with the Danes and other Europeans who are resisting Muslim and now international intimidation, we should always keep the tyranny of the EU firmly in mind and take up with the cause of the Slovaks, whose actual religious freedom and religious convictions are under assault for having the temerity to make an agreement with the Vatican that confirms that Catholic doctors in Slovakia will not be obliged to perform acts that are manifestly contrary to their faith. In other words, the EU has openly declared against freedom of conscience. This is an official abuse that is as important to repudiate and reject as the threats and intimidation of Muslim crowds.