One million protest abortion in Spain in massive weekend rally
From the Christian Post, October 18…
An estimated 1 million people participated in a rally in Madrid Saturday to protest a proposed new law that would expand permission for abortion.
The protest was called to denounce a bill that would allow unrestricted abortion at up to 14 weeks of pregnancy and let girls aged 16 and 17 have abortions without parental consent, a vivid and emotional show of how the issue remains sensitive 2 decades after abortion was legalized in this traditionally Roman Catholic country.
The overwhelmingly Catholic country currently allows only abortion in the cases of rape, fetal abnormality, or when the mother’s physical or mental health is at risk….
While Madrid’s regional government estimated the crowd to be about 1.2 million and a spokesman for 1 of the rally organizers said that 1.5 million people had attended, police said only 250,000 people participated, according to Agence France Presse.
Pro-lifers know America’s “health” loophole allows abortion on demand, although old media never explains that. The Associated Press did admit truth when it came to abortions not so close to home:
Under the country’s 1985 abortion law, the procedure is allowed in cases of rape or fetal malformation, or when doctors deem a pregnant woman’s physical or mental health to be in danger – a clause that has allowed for abortions to be carried out more or less freely. Most of Spain’s yearly 100,000 abortions come under that clause.
Someone on Twitter wondered, “What if we had protests against abortion like this in the US?”
We do, every January, when pro-lifers gather for the March for Life heedless of the freezing weather on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade The photo, left, is of the 2009 March.
Our crowd size is always disputed, as was Spain’s. It may or may not have ever reached 1 million, but it is always massive, with several hundred thousand.
Following was CNN’s report from Spain’s pro-life rally. Would that CNN gave 2:13 to America’s annual March for Life.
Note it is Spain’s socialist government that is attempting to eradicate abortion laws. Abortion is a child of the Left, pardon the pun.
Also note the incredible lie, which makes no sense even on its face, from the CNN report: “But the government says the reform is part of a broader national strategy on sexual and reproductive health aimed at preventing unwanted pregnancies.” Yes, let’s see whether the 100k statistic rises or falls if abortion is legalized on demand.
Viva Spain!
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
As the conflict between light and darkness intensifies the distinction between the ‘seed’ becomes more apparent.
The illusion of neutrality is evaporating like the morning fog and the line of demarcation between the two camps stands in stark contrast to the lie that there is consensus on this issue.
yor bro ken
Steven Levitt has a new book, Super Freakonomics”
One reviewer comments:
“Funny how Levitt became a global celebrity for theorizing in 1999 that legalizing abortion cut crime, even though juvenile homicide rates for teens born in the half decade following legalization were several times higher than for teens born in the half decade preceding legalization, as I pointed out in our debate in Slate in August 1999.”
Slate debate:
http://slate.msn.com/id/33569/entry/33571/
excerpt:
“Your logic implies that the babies who managed to get born in the ’70s should have grown up to be especially law-abiding teens in the early ’90s. Did they?
Not exactly. In reality, they went on the worst youth murder spree in American history. According to FBI statistics, the murder rate for 1993’s crop of 14- to 17-year-olds (who were born in the high-abortion years of 1975 to 1979) was a horrifying 3.6 times that of the kids who were 14 to 17 years old in 1984 (who were born in the pre-legalization years of 1966 to 1970). (Click here to see the graph.) In dramatic contrast, over the same time span the murder rate for those 25 and over (all born before legalization) dropped 6 percent.”
Hi!
I’m spanish and I have a pro life blog called “eligelavida”, that is “choose-life” (http://eligelavidanet.blogspot.com/). If you speak Spanish and want to join us, you are welcome.
I was at the protest against abortion in Madrid last Saturday. We don’t accept the new law that the socialist government wants to impose, but we neither accept the law that we have now, that allows abortion in certain cases. This law is responsible of the killing of more than a million babies in the last 25 years.
Me encanta España…
:)
I am confused. If Spain has such a large opposition to legal abortion, why does it also have such a low birth rate – only 1.1 babies per woman?
This does not reflect a very pro-life attitude. While the one million may object to abortion, it seems they are not having babies either.
eligelavida,
What a nice web-site! We need more Spanish pro-life sites in the U.S. Congratulations on such a wonderful turn-out at the abortion protest.
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At times I feel that the powers that be should move the March for Life in Washington from chilly January to summer time. Besides the obvious less than ideal weather, t’s hard for school children to get out of school and for their parents to leave them. I know the legislators wouldn’t be there in the Summer, but really, who cares? They don’t pay attention in January when they are there. It’s the American people that we want to reach. If they are energized against abortion, the politicans will be forced to follow their lead, IMHO. Let’s seriously consider having a March for life in the Summer or perhaps during Spring Break which is generally the last week in March where I hail from.
You don’t have to have a lot of kids to be pro-life. You don’t even need to have one kid to be pro-life. Being pro-life is about supporting equal rights.
“I am confused.”
Posted by: Julie Culshaw at October 19, 2009 11:24 AM
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Julie,
I agree with you on this one point.
You are confused.
The pro-life movement is NOT monolithic.
While we may have a divergence of opinion on how much influence humans should have on the number of children they choose to conceive, we do agree on this one point:
Every child that is conceieved is valuable and precious in our sight and we welcome them into the family of man as a fellow human beings vested with the same human rights every other human possesses and the state is NOT the source of these rights. At the very least we possess them because we are human.
Most pro-lifers would subscribe to the self evident truth that our human rights are the gift of God. The first of these is the right to life, without which all other rights are meaningless. Of what use is the right to liberty or the pursuit of happiness to a dead person.
If you reject that notion then you have by default made ‘government’ your god and history has demonstrated repeatedly the folly of that ‘choice’. If it government is the source of your rights, then they are as tenous as the winds of public opinion.
When your mother was pregant with you what species of embryo/fetus was resident in her uterus?
I hope this clears up your confusion, though I doubt you were ever confused. I believe you were just being contentious because you will not accept the fact that there are a lot of people who do not share your perspective.
yor bro ken
Posted by: H at October 19, 2009 12:08 PM
“Prolife is definitely not monolithic. Ken and Vannah are two examples of just how fractured this group is.”
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I reject the notion that pro-lifers are ‘fractured’.
Unlike progressive/liberal/humanists, most pro-lifers, do not command conformity to the party line.
Unity of the Spirit is not that we all agree with one another but that we all agree with God.
Religion requires conformity, but God delights in diversity. There are no two living things in creation that are identical and that is NOT an accident, it is by design and it is a reflection of the Creator.
yor bro ken
Well that’s just interesting.
Eligelavida, that’s why us pro life Americans are having such a fit over Obama’s health reform. Well, most of us, anyways. Once the foot is in the door, there’s no turning back.
Now if Europe can have the same attitude towards the islamization fo their continent…
Spain opposes the abortion laws being IMPOSED on them by the SOCIALIST government! WAKE UP AMERICA & START HITTING THE STREETS TO BE SEEN & HEARD!
Hello everybody! I’m from Madrid and I went to the demonstration with my wife, my 3 children and my parents came from Barcelona. Hundreds of people, lots of young merry people, heart-shaking testimonies… a magnificent and huge demonstration.
I suspect 90% people there were practicing Catholics with two or more children… or young students with 2 or more brothers. We have been more than a year in a hard campaign: we are using all American tested techniques: little fetuses models, 3D images, damaged women telling testimonies, young girls saying NO… “So, according to the new law, I need my parents permission to have a library card, but I can abort without their permission”, said a 17 years old girl to public TV.
Unfortunately, because of Spanish voting system, this huge crowd has no effect on politics nor on Parliament, which is a partitocracy, with closed and blocked lists…
On March we also had another demonstration, smaller, “only” about 60.000 or 90.000. It was a play testing. In 2005 we had two more: against gay marriage (about 300.000 people or more) and against nihilistic and relativistic education (about 400.000 people). Every time we do better. But presidente Zapatero (Obama twin on abortion) never listens to us.
We also have massive masses with our Cardinal Rouco, twice, in Christmas (2009 and 2008): about 100.000 or 150.000 people each, in defence of family and marriage. We are getting used to taking the streets. :-))
Prez Obortion doesn’t celebrate Christmas. He gets my spit for that, and a what ever God decides for eternity on his demented death obsession of murdering innocence. It really is what horror movies are at the core of.
Bienvenidos, Poi.
That’s wonderful that the Spanish are taking to the streets. We’ve been doing that alot here, too.
We managed to scare more than a few Democrats.