Madrid, Spain, Oct 11, 2010 / 23:01 pm
A Spanish pro-life leader is calling for the government’s Equality Minister Bibiana Aido to resign after she claimed that abortion is “not the taking of a human life” because there is no scientific consensus on when life begins or what human life means.
Dr. Gador Joya, a specialist in pediatrics and spokesperson for the organization Right to Life, called Aido’s remarks “foolish” and said they are “not only refuted by scientific reason,” but also by Spain’s constitution.
“It is scientifically indisputable that human life begins at the moment of fertilization,” she said.
Under Spanish law, abortions are illegal after the unborn child has reached 14 weeks of age. Aido has previously asserted that an unborn child prior to 14 weeks of age is “a living being, but not a human being.”