Madrid, Spain, Mar 5, 2025 / 16:40 pm (CNA).
Spain’s minister of equality, Ana Redondo, said at a press conference Wednesday that she is in favor of studying the inclusion of abortion as a right in the Spanish Constitution, as France did last year in its own constitution.
According to Infosalus, the health information portal of Europa Press, Redondo considered that such an inclusion would be “a good way to protect sexual and reproductive rights and, above all, the freedom of women.”
“It seems to me that this is a question that needs to be studied,” she said before adding that doing this involves an “enormously complex” procedure that would require sufficient consensus, and she doesn’t know if it exists “at this time.”
When asked about the law that considers abortion a right and classifies it as part of the services offered by the public health system, Redondo was open to “thinking about a constitutional reform when the appropriate and necessary conditions are met to be able to do so.”
March 4 marked one year since the French National Assembly by a vote of 780-72 made abortion a constitutional right.
On that occasion, the Pontifical Academy for Life issued a statement pointing out that “in the era of universal human rights, there can be no ‘right’ to eliminate a human life.”
The remarks by the minister for equality came shortly after the organizations that put on the March for Life in Spain, which takes place every year around the feast of the Annunciation, announced on their website that the next march will take place on Sunday, March 23.
This story was first published by ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner. It has been translated and adapted by CNA.
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Holding fast to the legacy of the so called ” democratic” republic of 1936! These reds delighted then and now in the shedding of innocent blood and their legacy is one word: DEATH!!
Ms Redondo’s concern for the freedom of women to slaughter prenatal infants reveals how far the travesty of freedom of conscience has taken us. France, now Spain historically bulwarks of Catholic Christianity now the purveyors of infanticide. Freedom, conceptualized as the unprincipled right to do as one pleases regardless of its effect on Mankind, our humanness, and our justification before God.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, the creator of the definition of Liberty [see Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992] that has swept jurisprudence on this life and death matter was present with the current Supreme Court Justices Tuesday during Pres Trump’s Address to Congress. He seemed quite at ease and pleased. As a lifelong Catholic who promoted abortion rights and opposed the Defense of Marriage Act does he represent more than a sliver of Catholic thought?
Liberty, freedom of conscience, a right or a function? If we examine Kennedy’s famed conceptualization,”At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life” in substance defines the liberty each person possesses that defines the function of free will. We are free to choose good, or evil if we wish. If we assumed that as our standard of Liberty, where does that locate Justice? If Justice itself means what is right and good, we abrogate its meaning. As has actually occurred in America as well as France and Spain. The juridical notion of justice is reduced to license.
Freedom, as a lawful standard of justice, is not simply the function of the human will to choose between good and evil. As a lawful juridical standard it transcends function, rather it is the exercise of the pursuit of Justice. That which is just and good. Freedom is the right to act within parameters of individual freedoms that must observe the rights of others particularly the right to life, the natural law reality of marriage exclusively between a man and a woman.
To Justice Anthony Kennedy, should you peruse the Internet I hope you find this article and its comments. If you find your concept of liberty a brilliant philosophical muse, this said in honest charity I advise you return to Catholic Catechesis for serious contemplation lest the verbally attractive hand basket you created will carry you off to Hell.