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This written declaration commits only those who have signed it.
Written declaration No. 566 | Doc. 13411 | 30 January 2014
The imperative need to avoid the counter reform on Abortion in Spain which breaches women’s human rights
1. This is the greatest step backwards as regards rights
and freedoms in Spain in the whole of our democratic era, and takes
us back to moments of our history which we believed overcome.
2. The current Act of 2010 on sexual and reproductive health
and on the voluntary termination of pregnancy is to be amended by
an Act entitled “For the protection of the life of the conceived
and the rights of the pregnant woman”.
3. Under the Bill the interruption of pregnancy will be permitted
only in case of rape, after lodging of a complaint and within a
maximum of 12 weeks, and in that of serious deformity of the unborn
child (“non nasciturus”) incompatible with the life of the mother.
4. Therefore, this Act deprives Spanish women of all capacity
to decide freely on their motherhood.
5. 90% of women interrupting pregnancy during the first 12 weeks,
will have to do so in a clandestine way, thus risking their lives,
freedom and dignity.
6. With this Bill, Spanish women will no longer be legal persons,
but subjects of law who need to be supervised, thus depriving them
of their status as rational persons with full enjoyment of their
freedoms.
7. 86% of Spaniards consider this Bill an abuse of women’s freedoms
and of those of society as a whole. 75% consider it unnecessary.
Therefore, we call on:
- the members of this Assembly, to sign this declaration so as to prevent Spanish women’s rights from being undermined;
- the Committee of Ministers to take steps so that this Bill, which violates women’s human rights, shall not be enforced.