Alberto Nunez Feijóo will defend this noon his position on abortion a matter of great sensitivity in the PP. His party appealed against the current law in 2010 and now he, after endorsing the Court Constitutional the norm, has accepted the decision and has come to say that the system of deadlines is “correct” and has indicated that this formula is applied by practically all European countries. Spain allows free abortion up to week 14. Until the 2010 law, the system was based on assumptions and it is what the PP, with its appeal, wanted to achieve: that the woman can only terminate the pregnancy in case of serious rape danger to the woman or that the fetus had serious physical or mental problems.
As this newspaper has learned, Feijóo’s PP wants to anchor itself in a middle ground between PSOE and Vox. “We do not believe that it is a fundamental right, but a right granted by law limited to the conditions established by the norm itself”, they think in the direction. The PP defends that “There must be a regulation of abortion” and also “pro-life measures must be promoted”. “Both things are necessary and compatible. If Vox refuses the first and the PSOE refuses the second, they must explain why,” they consider in the direction of the formation. The far-right party has called for the repeal of the abortion law and has registered a proposal in Congress to offer women who want to abort the possibility of listening to the fetal heartbeat.
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The central government is trying to incite this internal debate of the PP to try to take the pressure off for the ‘yes is yes’ law and reductions in sentences for sex offenders. Feijóo, in fact, this Tuesday did not want to answer the questions from the press on the issue of abortion because he wanted to talk only about the Executive and the other Pedro Sánchez’s focus of problems: the order of the Supreme Court maintaining the disqualification of Oriol Junqueras despite the embezzlement reform. Feijóo announced that today will be the day he sets his position. He will do so from the Niño Jesús University Children’s Hospital in Madrid, where he will visit to commemorate International Childhood Cancer Day.
Without “convictions”
From the hard sector it is considered that it has been a mistake that the leader of the PP “disregarded” the appeal presented 13 years ago by 70 deputies of the parliamentary group that Eduardo Zaplana led at the time. The “fundamental right” that appears “in the statutes of the PP and the Spanish Constitution” is “the right to life,” says a former party official who does not want to appear with names and surnames. “The 1985 law, of assumptions, was already a regulation. “Where there are no convictions, everything is calculation [electoral]. And, furthermore, they miscalculate”, This source responds when the possibility is raised that the evolution that Feijóo tries with this matter will give him a vote of the center, as they assure in their hard core.