Even though I’m generally not in favor of terminating unwanted pregnancies, I totally agree with the woman saying that restricting or limiting the current law is not the way to go down the number of abortions. Resorting to prevention is always the best way to tackle an issue. The solution lies in excellent sexual education and immediate and free access to infallible contraception methods.
By laying down this law, Spain’s centre-right government will lose votes and will risk sending woman into dangerous backstreet clinics for abortion (as the article says), whereas the problem will continue being unsolved.
Everybody would back a draft law which would allocate resources to research into one hundred per cent effective birth control methods and (would) endow Public Health Care and Education Systems with all available means to provide them (theses methods) for every woman.
You might think I’m going off on a tangent laying the stress on contraception and education but the objective I want to meet is using the vocabulary and structures while claiming a women’s right that remains neglected and ignored.
I typewrote the SCRIPT of the video: It’s an emotive image linked to an emotive debate which is resurfacing in Spain. “It was… For me it’s one of the most difficult experiences I’ve ever had. You have to decide to stop a life.” Laura, not her real name, already has two children. Several weeks ago, to her surprise, she fell pregnant again and she and her partner decided to have an abortion. “We cried a lot but then I was also thinking that I had a family and that I was going to have more time to dedicate to them. For me it’s not a doctor or a political politician who has to decide whether I will have a kid or not.” But that decision will not be available to Laura under the Spanish government’s proposed new low on abortion. Under the current law in Spain any woman can decide to have an abortion within the first 14 weeks of her pregnancy but under the new law abortion will only be allow in cases of rape or when the mother’s health is at serious risk. If the foetus (fetus US) develops abnormalities the mother will no longer be able to abort. Women action groups in Spain have rallied against the draft law. “All the statistics, everything says that it’s not because a law is more restrictive that the number of abortion goes down. It’s because there’s a good sexual education, there’s good access to contraceptive methods and it’s not because they make a law more restrictive.” As well as opposition on the street there’s been rare division within the ranks of Spain ruling Popular Party. The government has hinted that they will modify the draft law which still has to be passed by the Parliament? But the opinion polls suggest that the policy will lose the government’s votes because many people here see it as a step backward after decades of social change in Spain. But pro-live groups say it’s a step in the right direction.”The main point is not just to punish those who are causing abortion. It’s just to make a social climate (klaimit) in favor of life.” Spain conservative government is under pressure from catholic groups to change the law on abortion. But they will have to do so in the face of strong opposition.
In the third paragraph, I think I should’ve written: “Everybody would back a draft law which allocated resources to research into one hundred per cent effective birth control methods and endowed Public Health Care and Education Systems with all available means to provide them (theses methods) for every woman.” because I meant to use the second conditional.
Even though I’m generally not in favor of terminating unwanted pregnancies, I totally agree with the woman saying that restricting or limiting the current law is not the way to go down the number of abortions. Resorting to prevention is always the best way to tackle an issue. The solution lies in excellent sexual education and immediate and free access to infallible contraception methods.
ReplyDeleteBy laying down this law, Spain’s centre-right government will lose votes and will risk sending woman into dangerous backstreet clinics for abortion (as the article says), whereas the problem will continue being unsolved.
Everybody would back a draft law which would allocate resources to research into one hundred per cent effective birth control methods and (would) endow Public Health Care and Education Systems with all available means to provide them (theses methods) for every woman.
You might think I’m going off on a tangent laying the stress on contraception and education but the objective I want to meet is using the vocabulary and structures while claiming a women’s right that remains neglected and ignored.
I typewrote the SCRIPT of the video:
It’s an emotive image linked to an emotive debate which is resurfacing in Spain.
“It was… For me it’s one of the most difficult experiences I’ve ever had. You have to decide to stop a life.”
Laura, not her real name, already has two children. Several weeks ago, to her surprise, she fell pregnant again and she and her partner decided to have an abortion.
“We cried a lot but then I was also thinking that I had a family and that I was going to have more time to dedicate to them. For me it’s not a doctor or a political politician who has to decide whether I will have a kid or not.”
But that decision will not be available to Laura under the Spanish government’s proposed new low on abortion. Under the current law in Spain any woman can decide to have an abortion within the first 14 weeks of her pregnancy but under the new law abortion will only be allow in cases of rape or when the mother’s health is at serious risk. If the foetus (fetus US) develops abnormalities the mother will no longer be able to abort.
Women action groups in Spain have rallied against the draft law. “All the statistics, everything says that it’s not because a law is more restrictive that the number of abortion goes down. It’s because there’s a good sexual education, there’s good access to contraceptive methods and it’s not because they make a law more restrictive.”
As well as opposition on the street there’s been rare division within the ranks of Spain ruling Popular Party.
The government has hinted that they will modify the draft law which still has to be passed by the Parliament? But the opinion polls suggest that the policy will lose the government’s votes because many people here see it as a step backward after decades of social change in Spain.
But pro-live groups say it’s a step in the right direction.”The main point is not just to punish those who are causing abortion. It’s just to make a social climate (klaimit) in favor of life.”
Spain conservative government is under pressure from catholic groups to change the law on abortion. But they will have to do so in the face of strong opposition.
In the third paragraph, I think I should’ve written: “Everybody would back a draft law which allocated resources to research into one hundred per cent effective birth control methods and endowed Public Health Care and Education Systems with all available means to provide them (theses methods) for every woman.” because I meant to use the second conditional.
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