• Keys The similarities between the trans law that has ended the Scottish prime minister and the 'Montero Law'

  • Congreso Montero prepares a great staging of the Trans Law as ammunition in its war with the PSOE for the 'yes is yes'

Congress

has definitively approved the reform of the

abortion law of 2010

which, among its main measures, recovers that women aged 16 and 17 can terminate their pregnancy without the permission of their parents, guarantees that interventions are carried

out

carried out in public health and in the hospital closest to home and which also addresses a regulation of conscientious objection by health personnel.

The new and expanded legislation promoted by Irene Montero's

Ministry of Equality

comes a week after the

Constitutional Court

fully endorsed the system of terms of

Zapatero

's law , after a delay of 13 years in resolving the appeal filed by the Party Popular.

Precisely, this context and the turn of the

popular

on this issue is what has marked the final debate in Congress, with the left and Vox clamping down to corner the PP for its "updated" position and for its entanglement over whether it considers that abortion is or is not a "right" of women.

The former have reproached him for acting with "electoral imposture" and the latter have accused him of "treason."

In numbers, abortion reform has won wide-ranging support from Congress.

The bill has come out with 185 votes in favor.

Those of the PSOE, United We Can, ERC, PNV, EH Bildu, Más País, or Compromís, among others.

They have voted against 154 deputies, those of the PP, Vox or Navarra Suma.

There have been three abstentions.

The Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, takes oxygen with such a resounding approval of her abortion law in the midst of the crisis of attrition that she is suffering with the reductions in sentences for sexual offenders due to the law of only if it is yes, that they are on the way of the 550. He has not wanted to allude to this matter explicitly but he has done so indirectly to try to support his thesis that everything that is happening with the law on sexual freedom is a consequence of the "resistance" of the reactionary sectors to correctly apply feminist laws.

In this way, Montero has warned that the same thing will happen with the abortion law: "There will be resistance to the application of the law, just as there will be to all feminist laws," he said, adding that now "it is time to work hard with the autonomous communities, health centers or competent administrations so that there are enough personnel to perform abortions or allow sexual education in all schools and be able to "comply with the law despite resistance".

For the rest, the minister has celebrated the culmination of the project and the strength of the feminist majority in Congress: "Safe abortion and in the public so as not to die, contraceptives so as not to abort and comprehensive sexual education to decide, be free and be happy" .

"Electoral sham"

For its part, the PSOE has taken advantage of the debate to delve into the internal debate in the PP on abortion and to charge against the party for the "show" it is giving on whether it considers it a right or not.

"Gentlemen of the PP, they are not fooling anyone because they have had the abortion law appealed for 13 years," criticized Laura Berja, who has branded the new discourse of the popular supporters as "electoral imposture".

For the rest, and in the midst of an internal war with United We Can by the law of only yes is yes, the Andalusian deputy has vindicated her party.

"The PSOE has been the political support of the legal structure of women's rights in this country and, yes, it continues to be," she has sentenced.

The PP has justified its rejection of the bill as "untimely", "unnecessary", "infantilizing", "intolerant" and "intrudent".

Among other issues, Marta González has pointed out the party's opposition to girls aged 16 and 17 being able to abort without their parents' permission or that the new regulations are going to eliminate the obligation to provide information to women who want to terminate their pregnancy.

In addition, the people's deputy has warned of the risks that exist when this Ministry of Equality touches on a law due to "the probability that the disaster will spread."

Reason for which she has invited Montero to resign due to the consequences of the law of only yes is yes.

While the PSOE, Unidas Podemos, ERC or Más País have attacked the PP from the left for again opposing an abortion law, from their right they have also received artillery discharge from Vox for having "submissively" submitted to the postulates of the left and for being "directly responsible" for not having repealed the 2010 law and having contributed to the change of mentality about that rule.

Now, Lourdes Méndez Monasterio has had an impact, Feijóo "consummates his betrayal" for accepting what Vox calls "the maximum expression of barbarism."

Regarding the content, the new law establishes guarantees so that abortions can be performed in public health throughout Spain and requires that there be personnel available to do so in all hospitals.

In addition, it makes a regulation of the conscientious objection of health personnel, in the mirror of the one that was already launched with the approval of euthanasia.

Protocols such as the elimination of the three days of reflection are also changed.

Beyond the issue of abortion, the law establishes measures on maternity, such as prenatal leave for mothers from the 39th week of gestation, or on sexual health, such as the free distribution of the morning-after pill, sexual education in the school centers or absence from work due to menstruation with disabling pain.

These are the keys to the new law:

ABORTION

  • Women aged 16 and 17 may voluntarily terminate their pregnancy without the need for their parents' permission

    .

    It recovers what was established by the law of deadlines approved by Zapatero in 2010 and that Rajoy changed in 2015 only at this point to demand parental authorization from minors.

  • Minors

    under 16 years of age

    whose parents deny permission to have an abortion will have the capacity to request that a

    judicial defender be appointed to resolve the conflict

    .

    The procedure will be urgent and the Prosecutor's Office will intervene in it.

  • There are changes in the protocols.

    The mandatory three days of reflection are eliminated

    from the time a woman asks for an abortion to reaffirm her decision and, therefore, non-compliance with it is also deleted as a crime in the Penal Code.

    In addition, the envelope with information

    will no longer be delivered

    to women who are going to have an abortion.

    It will only be given to those who ask for it.

  • Physicians registered in the census of objectors to the

    clinical committees

    that analyze whether a woman can

    abort beyond the 22nd week

    are excluded .

    The law maintains that it is only allowed in cases of malformations incompatible with life or due to a serious and incurable illness.

    Also, the opinion of these committees will no longer be final.

    The woman may resort to the jurisdictional route when she is not satisfied with the decision.

  • Those who terminate their pregnancy will be entitled to a

    period of leave

    and the provision of comprehensive and specialized assistance and accompaniment in these cases is incorporated.

  • Health centers will distribute the

    morning after pill free of charge

    and in sexual and reproductive health service centers.

    Now you have to go to a pharmacy and pay about 20 euros.

PUBLIC HOSPITALS AND CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION

  • The law shields access to abortion in public health,

    in all hospitals in the network

    and the option of doing it

    as close to home

    .

    The objective is to prevent a woman from having to travel hundreds of kilometers to go to other autonomous communities.

    In the last five years there are up to 12 provinces where not a single voluntary interruption of pregnancy has been reported.

  • Conscientious objection

    is

    guaranteed as an individual right of medical personnel.

    A registry is created in which to register, in the same way as in the euthanasia law.

  • With this, the aim is to detect where there is a lack of personnel to perform abortions and the administration is forced to contract so that they

    are available in each hospital

    .

  • The objectors will be both for public and private health

    , preventing those who refuse in a public hospital from doing so by profiting in a clinic.


LEAVE DUE TO PAINFUL RELATIONSHIP AND MENSTRUAL HEALTH

  • The law regulates for the first time in a European country the right of a woman who suffers

    very painful rules

    to take sick leave.

    It will be included in the catalog of causes that generate temporary disability.

    It will be fully financed from the first day by the State, and not by the company.

    In addition, the worker will not be required to have any minimum number of days contributed to Social Security to access this leave, as is the case in other cases.

  • This menstrual loss, often related to illnesses, will be ruled by a doctor and will not last a maximum of days (at first there was talk of three).

    To access it, it is not necessary to have a diagnosed pathology.

  • To combat "menstrual poverty" free feminine hygiene products will be distributed

    in institutes, prisons, women's centers, civic centers, social centers or public bodies.

MATERNITY

  • A prepartum leave

    is created from the 39th week of gestation

    , which will not consume any day of maternity leave.

  • Good practices

    will be promoted

    at all stages of pregnancy, especially at delivery and postpartum.


CONTRACEPTIVES

  • The latest generation pills

    will once again be covered by Social Security

    .


    The rule will promote methods of male contraception.

"REPRODUCTIVE VIOLENCE"

  • Surrogacy

    , colloquially called "surrogacy," is stipulated to be a form of "violence" against women

    .

    Based on this consideration, the advertising of intermediation companies that facilitate access to this practice in countries where it is perfectly legal will be prohibited.

    In Spain it will continue to be a prohibited activity.

  • Equality wanted the parents of children born by surrogacy to be prosecuted with prison terms, even having done so in countries where it is legal.

    The Ministry of Justice stopped him.

  • Forced sterilization of disabled women, as well as pregnancies and abortions against their will, are considered violence against women.


SEX EDUCATION

  • Sex education will be comprehensive

    in the main educational stages

    with a focus on consent and good treatment.

  • Free distribution of barrier methods of contraception

    in educational centers linked to campaigns on sexual education.

  • Public specialized care centers for sexual and reproductive health and a telephone hotline will be created.

  • Training in sexual and menstrual education for teachers, prison officers and public workers.

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