Spain’s government intends to include abortion as a constitutional law

The president of the Government of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has announced that he intends to promote the inclusion of abortion as a constitutional right, after having carried out an initiative in Madrid to inform about the consequences of prenatal death in women.

Through Your X accountthe leader of the Executive formed by a socialcommunist coalition, announced that he will reform the decree that the abortion law develops to “prevent deceptive information or contrary to science on abortion” and will lead to the Congress of Deputies “a proposal to constitutionalize the right to voluntary interruption of pregnancy”.

This government initiative occurs after a motion promoted by the councilor of Vox, Carla Toscano, supported by the Popular Party, is approved in the Madrid City Council, which urges that “the Government Team of the City of Madrid, through the different areas involved, provides information, in a mandatory, verbal and written, permanent and visible way, on the post abortion syndrome.”

In the motion, Toscano says that “the psychological and emotional clinical picture associated with the post abortion syndrome was collected in the Psychiatry Reference Manual, the DSM III (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), in force between 1980 and 1994. In the DSM IV no longer appears due to political pressure and ideological interests.”

Among other effects of abortion, the motion cites depression, anxiety, guilt, sleep alterations, eating disorders, panic attacks, alcohol and drug use, affectation of sexual behavior, suicidal and attempts to suicide, internal hemorrhages, infections and increased cancers in the female reproductive system.

The approval of this motion unleashed in the country a strong political and media dispute, under the argument that the consequences of abortion in women are not scientifically recognized as a syndrome.

Tuscan, meanwhile, defended That the initiative approved in the Madrid town hall “seeks that women have access, because it is their right, to all the information about the sequels that leaves something as traumatic as ending your child’s life -because that is abortion, they get as they put on and call it as they call it.”

“The left and the scented left say that there are no scientific studies on the syndrome (or traum The councilor defended in another messagewhich accompanied an extensive list of scientific studies related to the consequences of abortion.

Bishops corroborate the harmful effects of abortion

The spokesman of the Spanish Episcopal Conference, Mons. Francisco César García Magán, who said at a press conference this Thursday that, in terms of post-abortion syndrome, “all the initiatives in the field of church of support to women who have aborted confirm that certainly exists.”

“Personally, I have the experience and I know a nearby case where there was an abortion and that mother had a very bad time. I believe that every woman who has done that experience of being a mother of a pregnancy has an awareness that there is someone there. There is nothing, there is someone,” he added.

For its part, the Spanish Christian Lawyers Association recalls that “from the hand of a woman with psychological damage after voluntary abortion,” he managed to make the Supreme Court condemn the ACAI association, which groups most of the abortion centers of Spain “for deceptive advertising when hiding these sequelae to women.”

In this sense, the Organization of Jurists announces that it raises judicial actions against “how many publicly deny the existence of psychological sequelae in women who abort.”

Difficulty to carry out a constitutional modification

Despite the declared intention of the President of the Government, the reform projects of the Spanish Constitution are not easy to undertake, since they are protected by a qualified majority.

Article 167 of the 1978 Magna Carta establishes that changes in the constitutional text “must be approved by a majority of three fifths of each of the cameras”, Congress and Senate.

This possibility would need the complicity of the main opposition party, the Popular Party, whose position on abortion is similar to that of the Socialist Party. However, it is doubtful that he received this support given the situation of institutional weakness of the government and the cases of alleged corruption in the environment of President Sánchez, who affect his wife, his brother and two secretaries of organization of the Spanish Socialist Socialist Party appointed by Sánchez.