Protests in Spain as womens abortion rights under threat of heavy curtail
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http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26000528
Proposals to make abortion only permissable if theres been a rape or threat to womans health.
I hope these proposals are dropped and Spain doesnt go backwards.
Proposals to make abortion only permissable if theres been a rape or threat to womans health.
I hope these proposals are dropped and Spain doesnt go backwards.
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I think everyone's worn out by the last abortion-based thread.
But yes, sadly, the right to legal abortion always needs protecting.
Me too but I do think politicians are out of step with public sentiment on this.
Good!
Some people don't need to justify their every belief with critical thinking.
Sometimes they just recognise that something is repugnant and that's enough.
Anyway, I hope that bill passes and more countries catch on. I know that some won't agree, but hey, people are all different.
Why do the Catholics wish to drag us all back down to their primitive level? They start with women's rights, next it will be homosexuals, blacks and everyone's favourite punch bag when the times are tough, the Jews.
In my opinion I think it's pretty cowardly of the EU not to enshrine the right to choose in European law. In this millennium it really is time the world stopped pandering to self serving religious organisations.
If they don't want contraception and abortion then no one is forcing them to use it or have one... Unfortunately that will mean these nut-jobs will out-breed the rest of us!
*sigh*
Maybe Catholics would prefer to reinstate the Magdalene Laundries, nice bit of slave labour and punishment chucked in, not just for pregnancy either, just for being born female, a temptress.
that`s as it should be.
"Rajoy said his government would instead seek to reform the law introduced in 2010, so that 16- and 17-year-olds would need their parent’s permission to have an abortion. The reform would be introduced by the end of the year, he said."
Not totally abandoned. The most vulnerable and least likely to have funds for private care elsewheres are being targeted instead.
Eh? How do you come to that conclusion? The proposed change is that 16-17 year-olds have to have permission from their parents. That's all of them, presumably, regardless of wealth. Personally, I don't agree with them having to seek permission but it's got nothing to do with the 'vulnerable' or the poor.
They are vulnerable and poor because of their ages!
Vulnerable, because they are young and having to get parental permission could open up a whole can of worms for them - from being denied permission, facing punishments, being thrown out, etc. Poor, because teenagers of that age rarely have a stash of money to use to make other arrangements such as travelling to another country, etc.
16-17 tend not to have money to fly to different countries for private treatment whereas adult women are more likely to, also to be more confident in arranging protests and have more social contacts to access other help..
A pregnant 16-17 is already more likely to delay facing facts when pregnant, add in then having to inform their parents to get help makes them even more vulnerable and less likely to access help even if they do have supportive parents.
Agreed
Some would argue it is uncivilized to abort a baby, or the potential to be a baby, when it is the definition of innocent and done nothing wrong.