Unlike adults – who are usually cancer patients in the last phase of the disease – 80% of palliative care children have neurological problems such as cerebral palsy and are not expected to die in the short term. A pediatrician cares for a child. The complaint does not come from now. Spain is at the…
OBJECTIVE OF THE SEMINAR: The United States was the second country in the West to legalize abortion in 1973. In the last decades there has been an important change in public opinion on abortion, a process that has culminated with the Supreme Court ruling of June 24, 2022, establishing that there is no constitutional right to abortion, and with more than half of the States approving restrictions on its practice. The objective…
A study published on May in the medical journal Cureus maintains that only 33% of mothers who abort consider it something “desired”, compared to 67% who assume it as something “inconsistent with their values and preferences” (43% ) or they directly understand themselves to be victims of coercion (24%). The 67% are unwanted abortions and leave…
For the first time in Spain, a woman has given birth to a baby after undergoing a uterus transplant. Previously, in October 2020, Tamara Franco had undergone uterine surgery at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona in an operation that lasted 20 hours. The donor was her sister, since she suffers from Rokitansky syndrome, for which…
Last month of May, the Portuguese parliament approved a bill legalizing euthanasia. It was approved with a comfortable majority: 129 votes against 81. The provisions of Portugal’s bill are similar to laws passed in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2002. Eligibles must be over 18, must be suffering from an incurable disease, must endure “lasting”…
The issue of abortion is not a mere legal issue as they would have us believe. We are facing an anthropological question and deeply contrary to feminism, understood as a movement in defense of women. Accepting abortion, regardless of the gestation period, the situation of the mother and the health of the fetus, is to…
Prof. Tonio Borg from Life Network Malta and member of the One of Us executive board received the award for fighter for family and life in Barcelona on May 6 at the Caixa Forum. Prize awarded by the Platform for the Family of Catalonia. Accepting the award, Tonio Borg encouraged those present to promote pro-family…
On May 9, the TC with a leftist majority will approve the sentence drafted by magistrate Montalbán that endorses Zapatero’s abortion law The president of the Constitutional Court, Cándido Conde-Pumpido, is ignoring a complaint filed before the Court of Guarantees by 140 associations for breaching their duty to abstain in the appeal on abortion. On…
Next week the Presidents and Delegates of FAFCE Member and Associated Organisations will gather in Murcia (Spain), for their biannual Board Meeting, from the 2nd to the 4th of May. For the first time in the history of FAFCE, its Board Meeting will take place in Spain and it will be hosted by the Catholic…
According to the report, most abortions (91%) are at the request of the woman The latest data on abortion in Spain are chilling. Since the law came into force in July 2010, where according to title II, more specifically in articles 13 and 14, the “decriminalization of the practice of induced abortion during the first…