“We want to remind by our presence, that by voting yes to this amendment to the Penal Code, thousands of mothers are going to be sentenced to the worst decision of their lives by depriving them of essential help; and thousands of babies are going to be sentenced to a cruel death. And that blood will stain your hands,” the pro-life platform said in a statement.
In the exposition of motives for introducing the bill, the PSOE characterized the “harassment” of pro-life witness at abortion clinics as “approaching women with photographs, model fetuses, and proclamations against abortion … the objective is for the women to change their decision through coercion, intimidation, and harassment.”
The socialist parliamentary group said it “considers it essential to guarantee a safety zone” around abortion clinics.
Under the bill, pro-lifers could be prosecuted without the aggrieved person or their legal representative being required to file a complaint.
The Congress of Deputies voted to take up consideration of the bill in September by a vote of 199 to 144, with two abstentions. Only the two largest opposition parties, the People’s Party and Vox, voted against it. The Congress of Deputies pass the bill by a 204-144 vote Feb. 3.
Both the People’s Party and Vox have expressed on several occasions their willingness to have recourse to the Constitutional Court, stating that the bill violates fundamental rights and public freedoms of assembly, expression, and personal beliefs.
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