After Ayuso rejected blacklists, he says that when he governs the list will not be of doctors who object to performing abortions but “the opposite”
MADRID, 13 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, denied this Monday that the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, is in “rebellion” for not giving the list of objectors to performing abortions, a “fundamental right of any doctor.” That said, he has stressed that the CCAA of the PP comply with the pregnancy interruption law approved in 2010.
“The PP proposal is very clear, the abortion law is complied with in Spain. I comply with it and so do the regional presidents of my party,” Feijóo declared in an interview on ‘Antena 3’, which was reported by Europa Press.
After Feijóo published a letter defending that any woman can have an abortion with “the best medical and psychological care, in accordance with the laws,” Feijóo indicated that this statement was a response to the head of the Executive, who had made a “tweet going back 40 years again.” “And I answer by specifying the very clear position of the Popular Party on this matter,” he emphasized.
POWER TO ABORT, IN FORCE FOR MANY YEARS
In this sense, he has indicated that “the right to voluntary interruption of pregnancy has been in force in Spain for more than 30 years with different modalities and intensities” and has stressed that the PP is a party “that complies with the laws.” “We are very clear that if a woman wants to have an abortion, she can do so with the best medical and psychological advice and in accordance with the laws,” he added.
When asked about Ayuso’s statements assuring that she will not make a “black list” of objectors and why she is declaring herself in rebellion, Feijóo responded that “Madrid is not declaring herself in rebellion at all” and added that “the voluntary termination of pregnancy is carried out in the hospitals of Madrid in accordance with the criteria of the doctors, every day, every week and every month.”
That said, the president of the PP has stressed that “the right to conscientious objection is a fundamental right of any doctor.” “And a doctor has the right not to practice, not to perform abortions if he considers it appropriate,” he warned.
GÉNOVA REJECTS FEIJÓO’S PROPOSAL OF A REGISTRY OF PRO-ABORTION DOCTORS
Given the fact that there are CCAA such as Aragon or the Balearic Islands that have said that they will provide this list but Madrid reaffirms its refusal to create a registry of conscientious objector doctors, Feijóo has indicated that when he reaches the Government, “the list will be the opposite” because “the important thing for a woman is to know which gynecologists, which obstetricians are at their disposal to carry out” the best intervention in case of terminating the pregnancy.
Sources from the PP leadership have rejected that Feijóo has proposed a registry of doctors who want to perform abortions. The Deputy Secretary of Sectoral Coordination of the PP, Alma Ezcurra, has indicated that what Feijóo said in that interview on ‘Antena 3’ is that the Popular Party is not “a blacklist party” and that they comply with the law. “In Madrid they are against blacklists and in the PP too,” he added.
When asked for the second time what the purpose of this registry of pro-abortion doctors would be, Ezcurra insisted that “what” the president of the PP has said is that they are not “in favor of blacklists” and that they are “in favor of complying with the law.”
“And whoever does not like the current law, what they will have to do is win elections and change it,” he said, to criticize Sánchez’s use of abortion as a “smokescreen.” Furthermore, he has pointed out that in Spain what needs to be talked about is birth rates.
THEY TALK ABOUT ABORTION BECAUSE SÁNCHEZ WANTS TO “CHANGE THE CONVERSATION”
In the same television interview, Feijóo attributed the abortion debate to Sánchez wanting to “change the conversation” in the face of the corruption cases that affect him. Furthermore, he said that since it became known that “a solution could be found in the Gaza war, the Government has taken this issue out of the hat.”
“What the Government says is that with the PP, women will have to go to have an abortion in London and that the jokes are sausages. That is to say, it takes us for fools,” he emphasized, adding that with the PP, which governs the majority of the Autonomous Communities, “abortion is a benefit of the National Health System and is used in public hospitals and when there are objectors that prevent all cases from being attended to, they go to the hospitals. “private.”
After highlighting that in Spain there are more deaths than births, he criticized that Sánchez considers that abortion is “a big issue” in Spain when they have had “30 years of legislation that allows abortion in the country.” “I understand that you want to change the conversation. I understand that you want to change the conflict,” he reiterated.
REJECTS THAT ABORTION IS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT
Given the constitutional reform proposed by Sánchez to include the right to abortion in the Magna Carta, Feijóo has expressed his rejection because the PP does not consider that “abortion is a fundamental right” and has indicated that this will mean “dissolving the Cortes and holding a referendum on the matter.”
“There is Mr. Sánchez, and by the way, and also those from Vox,” he warned, to remember that in ‘Patriots’, the group to which Vox belongs, the most important party is that of Marine Le Pen and “voted yes to the fundamental right of abortion in France.”
Given the fact that Sánchez assured that in Galicia 75% of voluntary terminations of pregnancy are carried out in public health and in the case of Madrid it is only 1%, Feijóo has said that he would like to “contrast” these data, especially if they were provided by the head of the Executive. “The data that I have read recently said that even some pregnancy terminations in Castilla-La Mancha were referred to hospitals in Madrid,” he added.
Furthermore, the president of the PP has highlighted that in the two hospitals that depend on the central government, those of Ceuta and Melilla, “you have to go to Malaga to have an abortion.” “Therefore, let us not enter into ridiculous debates,” he concluded.
