Spain Criminalizes Pro-Life Witness Near Abortion Clinics

Catholic News Agency ^ | 4/7/22 | ACI Prensa

[marshmallow]

Madrid, Spain, Apr 7, 2022 / 15:00 pm Spain’s Senate voted Wednesday in favor of a bill amending the country’s penal code to criminalize “harassment” of women entering abortion clinics.

The bill was passed without any changes April 6 by a vote of 154-105. It had already been approved by the Congress of Deputies in February. The law will go into effect when it is published in the Official State Bulletin, which is expected this weekend.

The measure was introduced in May 2021 by the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party’s coalition. It will criminalize "harassing women going to clinics for the voluntary interruption of pregnancy." Anyone promoting, favoring, or participating in demonstrations near abortion clinics will be subject to penalties.

Penalties for what is deemed harassment include jail terms of three months to a year, or community service from 31 to 80 days. Depending on circumstances, an individual can also be barred from a particular location for between six months and three years.

The People’s Party, Vox, and the Navarrese People's Union opposed the measure, and had presented two veto proposals that were rejected by the Senate’s Justice Committee March 14.

Vox representatives have stated on several occasions that when the law is published in the Official State Bulletin they will take it to the Constitutional Court on the grounds it violates the fundamental rights of expression and assembly. The People’s Party is also considering supporting this course of action.

Jacobo González-Robatto, a Vox senator, said that this law is “a clear example of the absolute manipulation of language” because “to abort is to kill, it’s to end the life of a human being.”

[Rurudyne]

Abortion = as unloving as unloving gets ... and one of the fruits of being turned over to a depraved mind is to be unloving.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Rules in favor of abortion are much more attractive to self-loathing Westerners, and by progressive logic, the fewer Westerners the better. I guess that's their idea of "loving".

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