In its new strategy that places families at the center of its political proposals, Ciudadanos presented this Monday its plan to promote assisted reproduction in Spain, the European Union country in which women delay maternity the longest and the second by the tail in birth rate.
"Many mothers have to resort to assisted reproduction by delaying motherhood so much, and the treatment should not come out of the families' pockets. That the Spanish health system guarantee them the power to resort to assisted reproduction to be mothers, and there are also To talk about a national pact for the freezing of eggs, we must also open this debate," Guasp had stated in an interview on Antena 3.
After the meeting of the permanent committee, the political spokesperson for Ciudadanos, Patricia Guasp, has announced the "ambitious plan" of the liberal formation, which aims to make Spain a "world leader" in assisted reproduction at a time when women they have "fewer children than they would like" due to the "economic condemnation" that it entails for families, as he has highlighted, and the "precariousness and temporality of work" that they especially suffer.
As already happened as a result of the recent controversy surrounding surrogacy, of which Ciudadanos is a firm supporter, Guasp has come out in defense of "all types of family" and has ensured that the liberal formation will always be against the "discrimination" and in favor of "reproductive rights", approaches that are specified in the seven points included in the plan that he has outlined.
This set of measures includes the reduction of waiting lists in the national health system for women who require free artificial insemination or fertilization services or compensation of expenses, which could reach 90% of the total value, of those who resort to private medical centers, where the cost of assisted reproduction amounts to an average of 8,000 euros, according to Guasp. This would be done through personal income tax relief.
In addition, the donation of eggs will be facilitated in a new "national strategy" and the preservation of those of women who need to freeze them due to a disease that puts their fertility at risk and a paid work permit will be offered during the assisted reproduction process. . In the same way, the public health system will cover the payment of the medicines necessary to achieve and carry on the pregnancy, even if they are prescribed by a private clinic.
All these measures, of a high cost for public health, Guasp has admitted, are focused on improving the birth rate in Spain, the spokesperson for Ciudadanos has insisted, who has recalled the other initiatives that the liberal formation has been presented in recent weeks in defense of families, such as the flexible working day to allow reconciliation or tax aid for having children, as well as free day-care centers and an increase in scholarships for the dining room or school transport.
In another order of things, the spokesperson has taken advantage of the press conference to charge against the Sumar project, presented yesterday by Yolanda Díaz, a "personalist platform", in the opinion of Guasp, which will have Ciudadanos "in front", as understood that intends to "subtract rights" and supposes the "image laundering" of a "make-up" communist party.
In this sense, Guasp has referred to the three blocks that, in his opinion, now exist in Spanish politics: on the one hand, the one that he has defined as "the conservatives of everything that does not work", in which he has located equally to the PSOE and the PP; on the other, the "communist block", with a project more typical, in his opinion, of the 20th century than of the 21st, and finally, the "Ciudadanos block", which, the spokesperson stated, is the one that proposes "better present and future proposals".
"With a communist party from the beginning of the 20th century, which only wants to go back in rights and freedoms, which reminds me of other countries very far from the European Union, obviously it is very difficult to reach government agreements", the spokesperson for citizens.
