Madrid, Spain, Jun 2, 2010 / 19:52 pm
Spain’s People's Party has challenged the constitutionality of the Socialist government’s new law on abortion slated to take effect on July 5.
The law would allow abortion up to the 14th week of pregnancy, and up to the 22nd week in certain circumstances.
A spokesman for the People's Party, Federico Trillo, told reporters the party considers the law to be “contrary to the right to life as it was interpreted by the Supreme Court in its 1985 ruling” allowing abortion up to the 14th week.
Trillo said the new law does not treat abortion as an “exception or as a practice harmful for the mother and child, but rather turns it into an unrestricted right,” and it allows minors to obtain abortions without parental consent.