Medical Associations Blast Abortion Laws

At the annual Congress of the Medical Profession, the leadership of Spain’s medical associations denounced Spain’s new abortion law, which allows doctors to kill unborn children for any reason during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.In a statement “Abortion is Not a Right,” the General Council of Official Medical Associations (CGCOM) repudiated the idea that killing an infant inside its mother’s womb could possibly be a “right,” despite contrary language in the law, which was passed recently by the ruling Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party.

“The medical profession has pronounced clearly on this controversial topic, indicating in the first place that one cannot speak of the ‘right to abortion,’ since the right to life is fundamental and cannot be renounced, and [abortion] continues to be considered a crime except in the terms fixed by the law,” says the CGCOM.

A roundtable discussion on “the doctor confronted by the new abortion law” held at the congress and led by the president of the Medical Association of Zaragoza, pointed out that the title of the law, which refers to abortion as the “voluntary interruption of pregnancy” is erroneous because “everything that is interrupted can be restarted, and evidently, this is not the case.” It also denounced the use of abortion as a form of contraception.

Doctors For Life International is an association of more than 1800 specialists and medical doctors. DFL endeavors to promote public health by upholding sound science in the medical profession, as well as the constitutional right to freedom of conscience for all healthcare professionals. For more information, please visit www.dfl.org.za

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Date: 19 May 2010