A US-based anti-abortion charity was given a €400,000 grant from the European Union to run a reproductive health and rights education project, in a decision that experts describe as “mind-boggling.”
The World Youth Alliance (WYA), which has a Brussels office, claims that abortion poses a risk to fertility and future pregnancies – claims rejected by the NHS. Its founder, Anna Halpine, has also compared abortion to “the Nazis and their campaign to dehumanise Jews”.
openDemocracy revealed earlier this month how WYA had been handed €1.2m over the past decade, with the €400,000 grant forming part of that total. However, it has only now emerged that this part of the funding was intended for reproductive health education for girls.
