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In Spain, the lower house of parliament passed a bill<\/a> that will allow 16- and 17-year-old girls to undergo abortions without parental notification.\u00a0The \u201cOrganic Law on Sexual and Reproductive Health\u201d\u00a0also eliminates a three-day period of “reflection” that was previously required of abortion-seeking women, and it prohibits physicians from offering information on maternal resources unless abortion seekers specifically ask. The bill, which passed<\/a> with a vote of 190-154 and five abstentions, still has to pass the upper house of parliament for final approval.<\/p>\n

As Spanish News Today reports<\/a>, parental notification laws were originally abolished in 2010, but were then reinstated in 2015 under a more conservative government. This legislation reinstates the old law, allowing minors as young as 16 to get an abortion. The bill also plans to create a “judicial defender” to advocate for those under<\/em> age 16 who want abortions, but whose parents refuse to give permission.<\/p>\n

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“We are restoring the right of women between the ages of 16 and 18 to decide about their own bodies,” said<\/a> Spain’s equality minister, Irene Montaro. “And we also affirm that the state recognizes and respects the autonomy of women to decide that we do not doubt their decisions.”<\/p>\n

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According to El Mundo<\/a>, the law requires abortions to be committed in every public health center in the country<\/em>. Though conscientious objection is allowed, a registry will be created with the names of all medical professionals who refuse to commit or assist in abortions.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Spain’s Catholic Bishops criticized the proposed law, as it allows minors to access abortion and removes a mandatory waiting period.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbortion is never a right,\u201d Archbishop Luis Arg\u00fcello Garc\u00eda, the bishops\u2019 secretary-general and spokesman, said<\/a> in a September tweet. \u201cThis new abortion law suppresses the prior information and reflection that are essential for making such a serious decision. It is all symptomatic of a way of governing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arg\u00fcello also decried the country’s abortion laws in an August interview. \u201cIn a situation of demographic winter, when advances in science make it possible to say unequivocally that a new life has begun, it\u2019s frankly appalling to propose abortion as a right and try to resolve the ensuing conflicts by annihilating the weakest,\u201d he said in an interview with the Valladolid archdiocesan radio, according to Crux<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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