Many Spanish doctors declare themselves conscientious objectors, which makes access difficult for women seeking the procedure. ZARAGOZA, Spain – Mercedes Sobreviela, a gynecologist in this city in northeastern Spain, believes that the decision to have an abortion concerns women. He says that the “right decision” for a woman is “whenever she wants.” But as a…
Fertility clinics offer a wide range of additional treatments designed to make a kind of reproduction a la carte. A happy world, without diseases and free from all evils, accentuating what Pope Francis came to call the culture of discarding. This is what the embryo genetic testing offered by Genomic Prediction, the first company to…
The Mexican Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN) recognized recently that conscientious objection of medical personnel is constitutional, but warned that it is not an unlimited right that allows discrimination against women and minorities. By majority of eight votes, the SCJN recognized as constitutional the right to medical conscientious objection, but clarified that it is only…
Next Saturday 23rd October 2021 the March for Life in Portugal will take place in 10 cities of Portugal, last time in 2019 there were 5 cities simultaneously following the March. You can follow all these marches at the Portugues March for Life Facebook page The marches will be held two weeks after in a political and parliamentary context where…
Judicial triumph of the pro-life case in the United States Supreme Court and serious setback in Mexico Abortion is a fiercely contentious issue that pits pro-life groups against pro-abortion in Latin America and in the United States as well. At the legal level, the debate runs aground on several points, above all, if it is…
The hope of the Secretary of the Interior is to draw up as soon as possible the draft law that incorporates the referendum question. After the halfway point of the sections scrutinized, 37 out of 37. She won the Yes in the proactive referendum on the voluntary termination of pregnancy. In fact, the citizens who…
On 1 July 2021, the European Court of Human Rights communicated a series of 12 applications against Poland (see links: K.B., K.C. and A.L. – B.. as well as the Court’s press release). All were filed by Polish women who consider that the ban on eugenic abortion violated their right to privacy (Article 8) and amounted to mental torture…
In Russia, as in most countries, the decrease in surgical abortion is offset by the extension of chemical abortion. But there is a difference: in the first case the process is immediate and irreversible, while in the second the mother has the possibility of reversing itself in the first hours. These procedures are well known…
The entry into force of the “fetal heartbeat law” in the state of Texas on September 1 has provoked the outrage of much of the American abortion establishment. Especially after the Supreme Court rejected the Center for Reproductive Rights request to block the law. Faced with the “government effort” announced by President Joe Biden to…
The rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association guarantee and protect various forms – individual and collective – of publicly expressing opinions, dissent, demanding compliance with social and cultural rights and affirming the identity of groups. The protest also plays a central role in defending democracy and human rights. The joint exercise of…