The Congress of Deputies gives the green light this morning definitively to the Pregnancy Interruption Law that incorporates, among others, the right of women aged 16 and up to the age of majority to abort without parental permission.
The new law promoted by the coalition government has prospered with the support of the majority of the investiture barely a week after the Constitutional Court endorsed the text of the law approved in 2010 up to now and which was appealed by the Popular Party in 2011.
The debate takes place after yesterday the president of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, assumed this sentence and the right regulated in Spanish legislation, a fact that can be described as historical for Spanish conservatives and that has aroused criticism within their own formation. .
This was reminded this morning in the course of the debate in the Chamber by the Vox deputy, Lourdes Méndez – a PP militant until 2016 – who described the shift in the position of the popular expressed by Feijóo as “betrayal”.
Méndez accused the PP of submitting "to the postulates of the totalitarian left." "Principles and convictions are held or not held, but they are not agreed upon."
Paradoxically, these severe criticisms of the ultranationalist party occur despite the fact that the PP has voted against the new law by disagreeing, among other aspects, with the disappearance of parental permission for women who want to abort between the ages of 16 and up to the majority. old.
