Spanish Socialists defend plans to loosen Spain's famously liberal abortion law

Claim that fewer restrictions will not result in more abortions

Spanish Socialists defend plans to loosen Spain's famously liberal abortion law...

"The Eternal Father command that you stop these murders at once! You will not destroy the lives of the unborn. Human life is sacred in the eyes of your God. No man has the right to destroy a life. The Father, He sends this life to you, and only He will decide when it will return back to the Kingdom.
"Do not, My children, be deceived by the words of the evil ones about you who cry to you of no space left for man. There is space, for My Father has a plan for every life He sends." - Our Lady of the Roses, August 5, 1971

LifeSiteNews.com reported on December 15, 2008:

The Spanish Socialist Worker's Party (PSOE) is defending its plans to loosen the nation's already liberal abortion laws, claiming that it won't increase the number of abortions.

"It's false that legislation influences the increase or decrease in the number of interruptions (of pregnancy)," said spokesman Carmen Monton in a press conference Saturday.

Monton further claimed that there was a consensus among witnesses who had testified before the congressional subcommittee handling the case in favor of a reform of the existing law.

Sandra Moneo, spokesman for the opposition People's Party, said that she was "surprised" at talk of a "consensus" for reforming the law, and added that the subcommittee hearings on the issue didn’t reflect that.

"It seems that they have attended a subcommittee completely different from the one the rest of the representatives have been going to," she said.

"What has been made clear in the subcommittee is that abortion is a tremendous drama for the woman and it is a drama in which it is necessary to put on the table all social and economic means for preventing a situation in which women in this country are threatened by abortion."

"What has been requested in this subcommittee, and in this the guests (of the committee) of every kind have agreed, is an improved juridical certitude in relation to the current execution of the law and also, they have been generally in agreement, with exceptions as is logical, that abortion is bad for the woman and has after effects."

Over the past year controversy has swirled around Spain's permissive abortion laws, which only require a diagnosis of danger to the "psychological" well being of the mother in order to justify an abortion up to the ninth month of gestation. Other European countries that allow abortion typically prohibit it after 22-24 weeks, except when the mother's physical health is threatened.

The "danger to physical or psychological health" rationale has been exploited by Spanish abortuaries, which pay psychologists to write easy diagnoses for their clients. Several clinics have been shut down after undercover media stories revealed the practice, as well as the use of meat grinders to destroy the bodies of late term aborted babies and their disposal in the sewage system (see LifeSiteNews coverage at http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/dec/07121401.html).

Although the Spanish public was outraged at the revelations, the PSOE is addressing the problem by proposing to loosen restrictions further, rather than enforcing existing restrictions.

PSOE representatives in the nation's parliament are seeking to eliminate criminal penalties for all abortions up to the 12th or even 14th week of pregnancy. The law currently allows such abortions only in the case of danger to the mother's physical or psychological health, rape, or fetal deformity cases, and imposes time limits on the latter two conditions.

"With this scenario that the PSOE is painting, it is evident that what we denounced before the beginning of this subcommittee is now happening. ... the PSOE has made a decision -- it wants to reform the current law at all costs," said Moneo.

"What surprises us is that the objective of the PSOE, of this government, is to avoid undesired pregnancies, which is acceptable, but not to reduce the number of abortions," she added.

Contact Information:

Embassy of Spain in the United States
2375 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20037
Telephone: (202) 452-0100
Fax: (202) 833-5670
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Embassy of Spain in Canada
74 Stanley Avenue, Toronto, Ottawa, K1M 1P4, Canada
Phone:
+1-613-7472252, +1-613-7477293, +1-613-7471143, +1-613-7476181
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Previous LifeSiteNews Coverage:

Spanish Parliament Urged not to Loosen Abortion Law
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/nov/08110601.html

Spanish Socialists Seek to Further Loosen already Liberal Abortion Law
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/sep/08090410.html

Spanish Socialist Leadership Urges Rethinking of Abortion Policy as Scandal Grows
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/dec/07121802.html

Spanish Pro-Life Activists Seek New Investigations of Abortionists Following Arrests
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/dec/07120710.html

Full Abortions Shown On Spanish Television - First In History
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/dec/07121401.html

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Angelicum University refuses to believe Cherie Blair’s pro-abortion and anti-family reputation...

LifeSiteNews.com reported on December 5, 2008:

Pro-life Catholics around the world are responding with outrage that the Pontifical University of St. Thomas in Rome (the “Angelicum”), one of the premier Catholic institutions of higher education, has invited Cherie Blair, the pro-abortion wife of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, to speak at a conference on women’s rights on December 12th. But at least some readers, upon contacting the Angelicum, have reported being told that the university can find no evidence of Mrs. Blair’s pro-abortion or other anti-life and anti-family positions.

Readers are taking action, writing to the university and forwarding the article, “Pro-Abortion Cherie Blair to Speak at Prominent Pontifical University of St. Thomas in Rome” published Tuesday. Typical of the responses received by LifeSiteNews.com was one today from a former student of the Angelicum living in Rome, who said, “I’ve forwarded your article to 60 or so contacts in my email book with instructions to forward further, and email the addresses listed. Thanks for the article.”

LifeSiteNews.com has been informed that the Angelicum since Tuesday has received “over 200 communications” on the issue, but that the university does not intend to cancel her appearance.

Anthony Ozimic, political secretary for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), commented, “The Angelicum, and all those in positions of responsibility in the Church, need to realise that Mrs. Blair is a highly experienced, professional political operator.

“Mrs. Blair has never been reported as saying anything upholding Catholic teaching on abortion or on any other pro-life issue. Her failure to defend Catholic pro-life teaching is explained by her strong, personal endorsement of the pro-abortion organisations IPPF, FPA, Human Rights Watch and the CEDAW (United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women) committee.”

“She has said explicitly on a number of occasions that she rejects Catholic teaching on sexual morals,” Ozimic continued.

CEDAW is one of the most prominent vehicles for what SPUC has called “one of the most radical pro-abortion campaigns ever.”

In her career as a “human rights” activist and political mover, Cherie Blair has publicly patronised pro-abortion and international population control organisations such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and the Family Planning Association (FPA), one of Britain’s leading abortion organisations and she has publicly repudiated the Church’s teaching on artificial contraception.

In addition to IPPF and the FPA, Mrs. Blair has strongly endorsed CEDAW, specifically mentioning the Convention’s affirmation of women's so-called “reproductive rights,” which is accepted as a euphemism for abortion on demand and sterilisation.

The committee which implements the Convention holds regular meetings with delegates from signatory countries demanding the implementation of the full range of legal abortion and contraceptive programmes, regardless of the laws of the country or the will of their people. The CEDAW committee has demanded that countries such as Poland, Malta, Fiji, Northern Ireland, the Philippines, Syria, Sierra Leone, and many others, drop all legal protections for the unborn and restrictions on artificial contraception. Most recently, the CEDAW committee issued a report calling upon the UK government to decriminalise abortion in Northern Ireland.

Ozimic pointed out that there are many other experts on women’s rights whom the Angelicum could invite instead, “who are totally pro-life and pro-family.” “Controversy about, and opposition to, Mrs Blair's invitation will continue to grow,” he warned.

On her website, Mrs. Blair writes, “(CEDAW) is the only human rights treaty which affirms the reproductive rights of women and targets culture and tradition as influential forces shaping gender roles and family relations.”

In her recently published autobiography, “Speaking for Myself,” she infamously admitted that at least one of her children was concieved when she had “forgotten her contraceptive equipment” when on holiday. In May this year, Mrs. Blair, describing herself as a “good Catholic girl,” told an interviewer on GMTV that the “ability to control their fertility” had changed women’s lives.

She said, “People seem to be quite shocked that perhaps a Catholic girl even uses contraception. But it is really an important thing for women because one of the things about the [autobiography] is about how women's lives have changed.

“One of the reasons women's lives have changed is that they have been able to control their fertility. It is an important issue.”

At the annual Labour party conference in September 2005, Mrs. Blair celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Family Planning Association (FPA), the UK branch of IPPF, who published a photo of her helping to cut a special birthday cake. She also participated in a condom give-away to promote “safe sex.”

In 2005, Mrs. Blair contributed an essay to the book “Why I am still a Catholic,” a collection of essays from notorious dissenters from Catholic teaching, including unrepentant active homosexuals. In this essay, she wrote, “Of course, like many Catholics in this country, I have doubts about some of the positions taken by the Church as an institution - for example, on contraception or the role of women. But I am not one of those who believes that the only response is to walk away because you have a different viewpoint. I have been taught that you should stay and try to change things.”

In the ten years of her husband’s tenure as Prime Minister, Tony Blair implemented a legal and social revolution that made Britain a world leader in abortion, destructive research on embryonic human beings and human cloning. His government eagerly implemented every demand of the aggressively anti-Christian homosexualist movement. In the ten years, regarded by pro-life Britons as among the most disastrous of the country’s history, Cherie Blair made not one public objection to this programme based on her alleged Catholic faith.

Read Cherie Blair’s endorsement of CEDAW:
http://www.cherieblair.org/women/2008/09/the-convention-on-t...

Appearance of Cherie Blair at the FPA 75th Anniversary
http://www.fpa.org.uk/about/history/detail.cfm?contentid=820

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
No Comment from Bishops as Cherie, wife of Former PM Blair, Touts Catholicism While Extolling Contraception
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/may/08052104.html

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Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas
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Roma, Italia
Phone: +39-066702402
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