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Hundreds protest at abortion plans

Women with slogans written on their bodies take part in a pro-choice rally. Photo: AFP

Women with slogans written on their bodies take part in a pro-choice rally. Photo: AFP

Several hundred people have held a demonstration against a government proposal to make it harder for women to get abortions in Spain.

The protesters in Madrid included one young woman who wrote the slogan "Judges and priests away from my body" on her stomach.

Justice minister Alberto Ruiz Gallardon has said he will ask parliament to change the law, including a new requirement for parental permission in cases where 16 and 17-year-olds want to end pregnancies.

In 2010, Spain's Socialist government changed the law to allow abortions without restrictions in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, and for 16 and 17-year-olds without parental permission.

Mr Gallardon's right-leaning Popular Party won a landslide victory in November and has promised to carry out its campaign pledge to tighten abortion laws.

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Pule' Carmel

Jul 30th 2012, 23:59

I cannot remember where I read this one.

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, a creed of ignorance, a gospel of envy, its virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

I think it was Sir Winston Churchil who said it.

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