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The Spanish Association of Accredited Abortion Clinics estimated that about 100,000 of the 118,000 abortions carried out in 2012 would be illegal under the new legislation. The revision was part of the 2011 PP election manifesto which was strongly influenced by the Roman Catholic church [ 25 ] and vigorously opposed by most opposition parties ...
Because abortion was illegal in Spain, during the 1970s, Spanish women who could afford to do so went to London to get abortions. In 1974, 2,863 Spanish women had abortions in London, and in 1975, there were 4,230. In the a four-month period in 1976, 2,726 Spanish women went to London for abortions. In 1979, there were 16,433; in 1981, 22,000. [17]
Written in the first person, it is formatted to read as the "diary" of a fetus, chronicling the process of fetal development from an in-utero perspective, beginning with conception on 2 October and ending in an induced abortion on 28 December. The piece is intended to make readers reconsider their position on the morality of abortion. [3]
The only people she knew for certain that had been through the procedure were the women from the preview issue of Ms. magazine, as the issue had featured the names of 53 women willing to come forward and speak about their abortion, and Bonavoglia has described the message as "the hardest letter I have ever written in my life". [5]
Scholars such as Michael Ugarte suggest that censorship may have been advantageous to some writers, as it required the "sharpening of the writer's traditional tools: irony, allusion, ambiguity, association, multiple signification and other devices that enhance the sophistication of the writing and the reader's reception of it." [32]
This is who is affected by abortion legislation.
The decriminalization of abortion was allowed for three reasons. The first was that it was ethical in the case of rape. The second was it could be necessary to save the life of the mother. The third reason was that eugenic, allowing abortion in case of fetal malformation. [16] Other countries were legalizing abortion at the same time.
"My body / my choice" sign at a Stop Abortion Bans Rally in St Paul, Minnesota, May 2019 "My body / My choice" at Women's March San Francisco, January 2018. My body, my choice is a slogan describing freedom of choice on issues affecting the body and health, such as bodily autonomy, abortion and end-of-life care.