Asserting that abortion “is never a right” and that the bill’s provisions are “absolutely indicative of a method of governing,”
Archbishop Luis Javier Argüello Garcia of Valladolid lambasted Spain’s Council of Ministers on Tuesday for passing an abortion law.
The law will now go through the legislative process after receiving the Council’s approval, which is the main governing body.
The Spanish Bishops’ Conference secretary general, Archbishop Argüello, highlighted the elimination of women’s reflection and knowledge as particularly detrimental in a tweet on August 30.
The cardinal emphasised that “denying information and contemplation” is “completely indicative of a method of governing,” adding that “the new legislation removes information and reflection as something prior and vital to make such a critical choice concerning the life of another person.”
The cardinal further expounded on why the law is vulnerable to criticism.
Speaking to the Spanish Bishops’ Conference radio station, Archbishop Argüello said that advocating abortion as a legal right is “terrible,” especially in light of Spain’s demographic crisis.
“To think that the solution to that conflict is to annihilate, the one who is also the weakest, frankly, it is something awful,” he pointed out.
“In a situation of demographic winter, where advances in science make it possible to say unequivocally that within a woman there is a new life, to propose abortion as a right, and trying to resolve the conflict, which I recognise can occur in certain situations, to think that the solution to that conflict is to annihilate, the
‘The imposition of the will to power and the right to decide of a person about someone so delicate and defenceless, who is a person who is already in a pregnant woman, can’t be termed progressive,’ the Archbishop of Valladolid said.