José Rodríguez Cuadrado is a Councilor for Childhood and Family and VOX party spokesperson in the Majadahonda Town Hall. He writes here on the the Socialist Spanish Government’s efforts to ban prolife vigils and counselling from taking place near abortion clinics.
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The current Spanish government, led by the socialists, has worked in favour of the culture of death since their arrival into power. Euthanasia was legalised last year and the decision of ending someone’s life will be taken by doctors or other people in some cases, not just by relatives.
Moreover, the Socialist Party has now presented in Congress a new law to ask for up to 12 months of imprisonment for those who ‘bully’ women in front of abortion clinics. The law has not been voted yet but it will probably pass.
Spain is well known for attacks against Catholics, not only in our Civil War ninety years ago but also in recent experiences. We remember the anti-Catholic demonstrations in the World Youth day in 2011.
As we all know, the international media is mainly in favour of abortion and Spain is no different. Especially because the government has subsidised the media here with more than €100 million plus tax exemptions since COVID-19 started.
The bad news does not stop here. The existing government wants to return to the law that allows 16-year-old girls to abort without informing their parents. It was the only change Partido Popular made while they were in office, even though they had originally promised that they would not change the law.
However, there is still hope in Spain to battle in favour of life.
Not only because there in now one political party pro-life in Congress, VOX, which will speak up against this change in law, but also, because many young people are meeting to pray near abortion clinics and they will not stop. Further good news is that a few months ago it was published that in Soria, one of Spain’s provinces, there are now no abortions due to doctors’ conscientious objections. Therefore, 113 women had to travel to a different province to abort their child.
Everyday there are more people defending life publicly in Spain. Social media is also now a place where a prolife activists are speaking up. A few months ago, a journalist with 130k followers complained about young people who were praying near a clinic. The tweet went viral and he received 3K likes. A mother of those young people replied. She has only 2K followers but she reached almost 10K likes.
Something is changing.
Shocking.