Feijóo assumes that a law of terms is correct and constitutional

"In today's Spain, an abortion law, with deadlines, is correct and constitutional.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
13 February 2023 Monday 18:59
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Feijóo assumes that a law of terms is correct and constitutional

"In today's Spain, an abortion law, with deadlines, is correct and constitutional." It is the affirmation with which the president of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, received this Thursday the decision of the Constitutional Court to endorse the content of the law, thirteen years after the regulation was approved, during the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero .

And Feijóo referred to the time elapsed to emphasize that what cannot be is that it takes more than ten years for the Constitutional Court to decide on an appeal, since "the content of the law is taken out of context", and "the feeling and the sensitivity of the Spanish people for an issue".

It is not the first time that Alberto Núñez Feijóo has shown himself in favor of the abortion law, but never in such a clear way, although before he made it clear that it is his opinion, because in the PP, as in society, "there are many sensitivities" and it is a matter, furthermore, that in his opinion affects "the woman, her partner, and that has moral, ethical, religious and philosophical edges."

"My personal opinion -he stressed- is that a well-constructed deadline law is correct in general terms, it is constitutional and an approach that deserves my respect". Other things are some aspects of the law of voluntary interruption of pregnancy, which the popular leader called "other borders", with which the PP does not agree.

Feijóo refers, specifically, to the fact that young women between the ages of 16 and 18 do not need the consent of their parents to be able to have an abortion. The president of the PP considers that if minors under 18 cannot drive or cannot drink alcohol, they should not be able to abort without the knowledge of their parents. The PP's proposal, in this sense, is that they should be informed, and if there is a collision between the wishes of the young woman and that of the parents, a family judge should decide.

In fact, in the PP they remember that after the Zapatero government, Mariano Rajoy was in power and it was decided not to modify the law, despite the fact that he had the votes to do so, considering that the law on deadlines had already been accepted by society , and what was done was a modification to introduce the need for parental consent for minors between 16 and 18 years of age. "In present-day Spain - insisted the president of the PP - a law of deadlines is a correct law."

The popular leader, in statements to the media after visiting the Madrid Community Film School, also referred to the yes is yes law, and assured that despite what both Pedro Sánchez and the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños, the popular ones have not received any calls from the socialists to talk about the PP's support for the PSOE proposal to reform it. Something that, in his opinion, is only due to "the arrogance" of the Government, which prevents it from "accepting the outstretched hand of the PP, whose sole interest is protecting women."

Alberto Núñez Feijóo is clear that "in any Western country, what happened would lead to a government crisis and an apology from the president", because he, he stressed, "knew the consequences before approving the law, during its approval and after its approval" .