Unmasking the PP's abortion lies

Let's just recap for a second, please, brand-new Mr Justice Minister. The right to have an abortion is "pressuring" Spanish women who get pregnant into getting rid of their baby, and your proposed reform will strengthen the "right to maternity." It is, one has to admit, a novel argument.

Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón has never been afraid to buck political tends. As the Popular Party mayor of Madrid he merrily married gay couples even as his party was disputing the constitutionality of the same-sex-union law that allowed for such events. Now he is attempting, to use his own word, to draft more "progressive" abortion legislation than the one Zapatero's Socialist government had passed, which did away with the need for pretexts (including the mother's mental health, which was the loophole whereby almost all terminations were justified whether the left or right was in power) and gives pregnant women free choice up to the 14th week. The minister has tried to be original. He seems to have calculated that the rights of the unborn child do not weigh more heavily in the mind of most people than those of women, so let's argue that criminalizing abortion gives women greater rights.

Gallardón cites a "systemic gender violence" forcing people to abort, adding: “No woman should be forced to renounce motherhood because of family, work or social conflict.” I couldn't agree more with that last comment, but how will restricting the right to abortion help that? It is as if Gallardón is preparing to install Scandinavian-style maternity leave and free crèches in every workplace in Spain. But he can't: first because he is minister for justice; and second because his master Rajoy has made it pretty plain that there is no money in the kitty for anyone to be airing the possibility of expansive new social welfare programs. No. It is either a disingenuous or entirely foolish rhetorical gambit to suggest that one right (that of abortion) is impinging on another (maternity). It is like arguing that the right to remain silent is an attack on freedom of expression.

But even accepting the argument that the availability of abortion is somehow feeding into societal pressure on women not to go ahead with births, again the new law comes out unscathed. The number of abortions did not rise after the Socialists' reform. The only important changes have been that fewer late terminations have taken place due to the removal of the mother's-health loophole (now there has to be a serious physical reason to abort beyond the 14th week), and that public health authorities were obliged to face their responsibilities in this area, economic excuses notwithstanding.

Gallardón may be trying to create a central ground between Spain's devout anti-abortionists and more moderate conservatives who are as concerned with women's place in society as with Catholic morality. But this choice between abortion on demand and women balancing work and motherhood simply does not exist.

The Catholics who demonstrated against Zapatero's law showed their strength, but put the Popular Party under pressure to act once back in power. Rajoy has expressed his preference for the old law (the old lie), under which abortion was illegal but any middle-class girl could short-circuit an inconvenient pregnancy. Isn't it time for the right to espouse a more honest anti-abortion policy? At least when making a defense of the fetus against women's freedom to choose, you can sincerely argue that one right has to come before the other.

 

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Old lie? Abortion was not illegal in Spain. "Any middle-class girl" and any woman "could short-circuit (what a metaphor!) an inconvenient pregnancy".