The Government of Spain assesses abortion as a constitutional right

The Minister of Equality of the Government of Spain, Ana Redondo, said Wednesday during an informative meeting that he is in favor of studying the inclusion of abortion as a right in the Spanish Constitution as France did last year.

As reported InfosalusSanitary Information Portal of the Europa Press Agency, Redondo considered that it is “a good way to shield sexual and reproductive rights and, above all, the freedom of women.”

“It seems to me that it is an issue to study,” he said, before adding that this intention implies a “enormously complex” procedure that would need a sufficient consensus that does not know if it occurs “at this time.”

When asked about the law that considers abortion as a right, Redondo was open to “thinking about a constitutional reform when the appropriate and necessary conditions are given to do so.”

This Tuesday, March 4, one year was completed since the Parliament of France approved, by 780 votes in favor and 72 against, the consideration of abortion as a constitutional right, thus becoming the first state to make a decision of this nature.

On that occasion, the Pontifical Academy for Life He issued a statement In which he recalled that “in the era of universal human rights, there can be no ‘right’ to suppress a human life.”

The statements of the Minister of Equality have occurred shortly after the organizations promoting the march for life, which is carried out around the day of the Incarnation, have announced on your website that the next call will take place next Sunday, March 23.