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Europe
Spain abortion reform sparks anger
2009-03-30
Tens of thousands of people have protested in Madrid, the Spanish capital, against government plans to liberalise the country's abortion laws.

The demonstrators marched through the city on Sunday, with many gathering outside the Equality Ministry, which has been tasked with changing to the regulation. "Get out of here and let the children live," protesters shouted, while calling for Bibiana Aido, the socialist government's equality minister, to step down.

About 500,000 people took part in the protest, a spokesman for the groups organising the protest said, but reporters from the Agence France Presse news agency put the turnout at about 100,000.

Police did not issue an estimate of those attending the protest, which was supported by Spain's right-wing opposition and the country's Roman Catholic church. "As a Catholic, I think we should help women have children, not abort them," Paco Ortega, one of the protesters, said.

In one part of the demonstration, children danced and sang: "Thank you mummy for letting me live."
Posted by:Fred

#5  Spain seems heavily spoiled by an hedonistical & left-leaning spirit...

Well, as long as they're the ones having the abortions ...
Posted by: Zorba Craising6734   2009-03-30 12:24  

#4  This should do wonders for Spain's 1.31 fertility rate.
Posted by: ed   2009-03-30 07:21  

#3  JFM, you messed up your nick. Interesting still how lively is the spanish conservative opposition, even when the msm, french or not, will not report on the sheer massiveness of some street protest turnouts (like that education reform a couple years ago, with literally millions in the street, with barely a peep from the teevee talking heads, whereas any 10-15 leftists protest is accompanied by several news crews). Spain seems heavily spoiled by an hedonistical & left-leaning spirit, but it DOES have an actual conservative movement.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2009-03-30 06:39  

#2  "Abortion is better than an unloved child"
Lasarus Long
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-03-30 04:46  

#1  Provisions of the law include:

-Abortion without parental consent for 16 years old girls

-Abortion until 22th week. That is five month. At this stage the baby has been for long being able to move (people will remind an issue from a Tv series, who I have been told was based on real facts, where a faoetus grabs a fringer of the surgeon who was intervening his mother: that was a 20 weeks foetus).

Opposition hasn't been merely a catholic thing. I know a lot of liberal (european sense: free market) atheistic or agnostic bloggers and all of them are adamantly against this law. In fact a number of left wing Spaniards oppose it and others only support it due to party discipline.
Posted by: ly a ctholic thing.    2009-03-30 01:52  

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