Spain proposes to lower abortion age and remove parental consent for 16 year olds

[BeyondGeography]

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Spain’s government has approved a draft of a reform of the country’s abortion law, reinstating the right for women aged 16 and over to terminate a pregnancy without needing parental consent.

The law, which must now be approved by both houses in Spain’s Congress, also introduces measures such as allowing women to take time off for period pains, makes the morning after pill free and bans surrogate pregnancies.

The government is seeking to get the law approved before elections next year. It has yet to receive a report from the General Council of the Judiciary or another from the attorney general’s office on its content. Irene Montero, the equality minister, said that the delay in receiving the reports should not “limit or paralyse” the process. She said they would be added to the draft when they were ready.

…The main purpose of the latest reform is to remove the need for 16 and 17-year-olds to obtain permission from their parents to seek an abortion. It also introduces measures such as guaranteeing confidentiality for women by destroying the post-abortion paper trail, and calls for a register of conscientious objectors to abortion so that public hospitals can ensure they have staff available to carry out the procedure.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1449e2ce-287a-11ed-9092-6adde03bf612?shareToken=30c772e877bb589f0f14db333561fea3

[samnsara]

1. hmmmm Spain not be a bad place to live..

[secondwind]

2. Most all of Europe is way more progressive than we are.