Legislation introduced in Spain’s lower chamber of the country’s parliament (Cortes Generales) would create a so-called “buffer zone” around abortion facilities to prevent any kind of pro-life protest or counseling in the area.
Live Action reports:
The proposed law, introduced by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) to the Congress of Deputies on May 21, would penalize anyone who “harasses or restricts the freedom of a woman who intends to exercise her right” to abortion. Spanish citizens could be punished for “promoting, favoring, or participating in gatherings in the vicinity of places enabled to interrupt pregnancies” or “causing an impairment in the freedom or privacy” or women seeking abortions.
The bill characterized pro-life harassment as “approach[ing] women with photographs, models of fetuses and proclamations against abortion before they enter the clinic. The goal is for women to modify their decision through coercion, intimidation and harassment. In Spain, ACAI has requested a regulation that considers harassment in the clinics of this type of actions as a crime of obstruction of abortion.”
Pro-life sidewalk counselors would face punishment of three months to one year imprisonment, or community service of between 31 to 80 days. Anyone who violates the law could also be barred from revisiting the area from anywhere between six months to three years.
The law could also prevent the Spanish pro-life group Life Ambulance from offering free ultrasounds outside abortion clinics. The ambulance is staffed by professionals and offers the chance to show women the humanity of their babies. Most women who receive these ultrasounds ultimately choose life for their babies.
El Pais’ reporting on the subject questioned whether this constituted “harassment”; during a testimony of Gador Joya, who runs the ambulance, an official at the regional health meeting speculated that the high rate of success must be due to “torture.”
“Because [Joya] says that many women decide not to have an abortion when they hear the heartbeat. How many women is that? And what happens to them? What is the psychological and emotional cost for these women?” asked the official, who did not make mention of the psychological or emotional cost of abortion itself upon women.
The radical proposal comes after tensions between pro-lifers and pro-abortion people have hit a record peak.
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Nice that you put this out so that our government can follow suit, This is one reason why they want our guns so we can’t protect our self.
Spain has a tenuous history with democracy.
Having said that, your point about our government is well taken.
This would never happen had the Falange party under Franco still been in power in Spain. He was a champion of the Catholic Church and traditional values.
Does anyone know: Is there a late term abortion for politicans
They don’t want to disturb the selling of unborn baby body parts for research….profit in the socialists agenda is the major priority.
Very plainly Roman Catholic, isn’t it, España? Mierda del toro!
The PSOE is basically Communist.
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