The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has indicated that the Council of Ministers will require the Community of Madrid this Tuesday to create a registry of doctors who are conscientious objectors to the practice of abortion. Likewise, the head of the Executive has said that they will begin the process to protect abortion in the Constitution through a second request to the Council of State to prepare the opinion for the eventual reform of article 43 of the Constitution.
“Today in the Council of Ministers we are going to require the Community of Madrid to comply with the law and, therefore, approve this registry of conscientious objectors,” announced Sánchez, who pointed out that he would like “a state party such as the Popular Party to demand that the president of the Community of Madrid comply with the law, which says that she has to do a”, stated Pedro Sánchez, who has contrasted the situation in Rome, where “90% of “Abortions occur in public health,” he explained, with that of the Community of Madrid, “”We have to enforce the law throughout the State, of course, in the Community of Madrid,” he concluded.
In this sense, the President of the Government has explained that we must follow the example of France, the first country that “we are seeing that, in factregardless of whether there is a law that regulates it, for ideological reasons, dogmatism and sectarianism, what it does is, as the president of the Community of Madrid said the other day: Go somewhere else to have an abortion! When that is the right also of women who live in Madrid.”
Sánchez has said that it is “an option” to ask for the endorsement of citizens in a consultation, but that the Executive will try to protect abortion in another way, through article 43 of the Constitution, that is, that it is not included as a fundamental right and, therefore, does not imply the dissolution of the Cortes and the holding of a referendum. For this reason, the Council of Ministers will request this Tuesday the opinion of the Council of State for the eventual reform of the Constitution in article 43, “and from there what I hope is that there is a majority in Parliament that effectively protects this right,” indicated the head of the Executive, who pointed out: “If the Popular Party, as it says, is willing to defend the right to voluntary interruption of pregnancy, I think it should not have any problem, not even politically. nor intellectual, perhaps there is some prejudice towards the extreme right, but not towards the social majority of this country for protecting the right to abortion in the Constitution.”
Regarding the words of the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, that this Monday that is, with the doctors “willing” to practice voluntary terminations of pregnancy, Sánchez asks him to “be clear.” “I have heard you say that you defend the right to voluntary interruption of pregnancy. And I believe that the best way to defend this right of women is as other democracies have done, such as, for example, French democracy, protecting it in the Constitution is what we are going to start today in the Council of Ministers.”
