Isabel Vaughan-Spruce: "The damage abortion inflicts on women alone should be enough to make us pro-life".The abortion law is "at the service of savage neocapitalism".Abortion law reform encourages minors to have abortionsMarch is the month of life for the Spanish calendar. Not surprisingly, Madrid and the CEU are hosting this weekend's congress In the breach', organized by the Spanish Federation of Pro-Life Associations, which emphasizes the protection of the embryo. Inaugurating the symposium, now in its 25th year, were Alfonso Bullón de Mendoza and Alicia Latorre, president of the Pro-Life Federation.
Alicia Latorre told Omnes that "En la brecha wants to reflect, on the one hand, that everything that will be offered at the congress is in direct contact with reality, with the difficulties of many human beings at different moments of their existence. We do not speak in theory or give our opinion from a distance. We are in the breach".
"On the other hand, to stand in the gap is to stand in that crack through which a fortress is vulnerable. Because that wall of violence, of ignorance, of injustice, of lies and manipulation, of the culture of death, must fall," he says. "And that is possible simply by showing the truth, the greatness of every human life, and unmasking the ideological and economic strategies that have wanted to invade society and hearts. And with deep love and dedication to every human being."
On the other hand, the platform Yes to Life has called on civil society to celebrate the International Day of Life, and has called for a march in Madrid on Sunday, March 12, which is supported by more than 500 associations and civic entities. Alicia Latorre, Amaya Azcona (Red Madre), Álvaro Ortega (Fundación + Vida), Javier Rodriguez and Marcos Gonzalvez (Foro de la Familia), Rosa Arregui (Adevida), Marta Velarde (+Futuro), Ana del Pino (One of Us), Eva María Martín (Andoc); Oscar Rivas (Educatio Servanda); and Reme Losada (Aesvida), among others, took part in the presentation.
USA and Europe: diverging paths
It seems that, at the moment, the United States and Europe are going in opposite directions on pro-life issues. They are aware of this, as has been demonstrated once again at the massive Marches in Washington and Los Angeles, that the struggle in defense of life has entered into a new phase. new phaseas indicated in the march's slogan: "Next steps. Marching in one Post Roe America", the 'post Dobbs' America, accentuating the 'together', together.
On the other hand, it is true that the Supreme Court of the United States, in its Dobbs v. Jackson rulingThe President pointed out that abortion is not a federal right, and that it has no basis in the Constitution, in the history and in the tradition of the nation, as José Ignacio Rubio emphasized in a day of the Canon Law Section of the Madrid Bar Association.
But it is also true that each State will now legislate on the matter and that, for example, as Professor Rubio reminded us, abortion is legal in 15 States according to the criterion of the viability of the baby; it is legal without gestational limit in 5 States and in the capital, Washington, and it is illegal in 13 States.
In short, "Dobbs is a legal landmark of the first order, with an undeniable symbolic value. However, it does not mean that abortion has been abolished in the United States of America," he recalled. Rafael Palomino in Omnes. True, but arguably a loophole has been breached in the wall.
In Europe, on the contrary, there is pressure to include abortion in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, and ideology continues to make progress in the legislative arena and in the courts in the face of scientific evidence, which affirms that denying that a new life exists in the womb of a pregnant woman from conception is irrational, as pointed out by the Spanish bishops of the Episcopal Subcommission for the Family and Defense of Life of the Spanish Episcopal Conference.
The chairman of this subcommittee, Monsignor José Mazuelosreferring to the sentence that would soon be issued in Spain, said: "A court has been set up to approve an unjust, ideological and anti-scientific law".
On the community front, the San Pablo CEU University Foundationtogether with One of Us and more than 50 civil organizations, organized an international conference in Brussels to oppose the inclusion of abortion as a fundamental right. The president of the CEU foundation, Alfonso Bullón de Mendoza, warned that "it is a totalitarian claim on that part of the European population, including entire countries, which do not agree on such a serious issue"..
