Stepping into the voting booth this upcoming round of EU elections occurring 6-9 June, one is not faced with an easy choice.

Even parties that proclaim themselves to be Christian Democrats advocate elevating abortion to EU law and enshrining it in the equivalent of an EU constitution. This flies against not only the principle of subsidiarity, which such parties claim to uphold, but also against natural law and the inviolable nature of every human life.

Vices can be of two kinds: of excess or deficiency. This idea is commonly traced back to Aristotle, whose claim that virtue is the mean between two extremes lends itself to the conclusion that extremes must fall short of virtue. Aristotle’s mentor Plato proposed the idea of an invisible measure that stakes out the path to be trod between two extremes that threaten to throw one off balance. Physical exercise is an example that Plato uses to show that a right course of action exists, for, as any athlete knows, too little of it can weaken the body while too much fatigues the body.