Precious Life attends the ‘One Of Us’ General Assembly in Brussels Parliament
Precious Life united with other pro-family campaigners from throughout Europe to attend the ‘One Of Us’ General Assembly in the Brussels Parliament on 19th October. The message sent out from the Assembly was clear - “Defending the family is the best way to defend life.”
Jaime Mayor Oreja, President of ‘One of Us’, spoke passionately about the future of the Federation. He said, “Our Federation shouldn’t be ‘virtual’ but rather a real organisation for life and human dignity.” He also denounced the wave of a “new world order” which seeks to destroys human life and dignity to create a new society. He underlined not only the depth of the crisis but also its acceleration.
The President said the Federation has first to defend the right to life, but also has the duty to explain this general context based on a new concept of the person, of the family and ruled by the gender ideology : “defending family is the best way to defend life, and defending life always requires defending family”.
He added that the Federation has to encourage a “new wave” of European public opinion beyond relativism and extremism.
To build this strong Federation and to continue to spread life and human dignity, five new members joined from Italy, Malta, Portugal and two from Spain.
The necessity to continue the European Citizens’ Initiative, signed by almost 2 million Europeans, was also underlined: this is the goal of the One of Us Appeal of Experts campaign, extended until May 9th 2017 in order to collect the support of health, legal and political experts and to present it at the European Parliament for the Europe Day.
The European experts ask the European institutions to review the ‘One of Us’ European Citizens’ Initiative.
A new appeal to protect life – especially life of persons with disabilities – was made with the invitation to spread the international campaign Stop Discriminating Down for non-discrimination of persons with Down Syndrome. The aim is to raise awareness of international institutions on prenatal stigmatisation of persons with Down Syndrome, with the support of citizens signing the Stop Discriminating Down petition.