fredag 27 juli 2012

Den grundläggande rätten för kvinnor att välja om och när att få barn är hotad i Spanien. Justitieminister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon förklarade i en intervju på lördagen att regeringen planerar att skärpa den nuvarande abortlagstiftningen, eftersom den anses “etiskt otänkbar”

Europeans Women’s Lobby (EWL) manar nu i ett upprop till för försöka stoppa inskränkningar i rätten till abort. Man har även startat en namninsamling för att uppmärksamma hotet mot kvinnors rättigheter.

Såhär skriver EWL i ett pressmeddelande:

As presented by the Minister, the new law would forbid abortion as a general rule, except in some specific cases. Among them, foetal impairment would no longer be considered. Two years after the introduction of the 2010 law liberalising the right to choose on abortion under the Zapatero government, this move represents severe backsliding on a hard-won and key victory for women’s rights.

Until recently, abortion was indeed strictly forbidden in Spain, condemning women to practice unsafe clandestine abortions which caused for example more than 3000 deaths of women in the single year of 1976, according to data from the Supreme Court. Liberalisation came about very slowly, with the introduction in 1985 of three exceptions authorising women to abort : in cases of rape, foetus malformation or physical/psychological distress for the mother. In 2010, the socialist government of José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero finally made it legal to abort for all women, including young women aged 16 and 17, up to 14 weeks of pregnancy, or 22 weeks in cases where the mother’s health is at risk or where the foetus shows severe malformations. Since then, abortion has been at the heart of a very heated debate in Spain.

With the election in 2011 of the new conservative government of Mariano Rajoy, the abortion legislation is again under threat, with the government planning a return to the 80’s regulation. Religious pressure groups are urging politicians to go even further, asking them to ban abortions also in cases where the mother’s psychological health is at risk, which would reduce women’s right to choose to nothing. The EWL firmly condemns these attempts to violate women’s rights : governments must ensure that women have the right to a safe abortion and that their choice is always respected.

Läs hela texten här: Help keep abortion legal in Spain!

Och här finns namninsamlingen: Pide al Ministro de Justicia que NO reforme la Ley del Aborto