"When you abort, part of you also dies"

They are placed in the immediate vicinity of the clinics for hours with a single objective: to persuade women who have already freely made the decision to abort not to do so. They are groups of ultra-Catholics who organize to go to the centers in different Spanish cities and in them they deploy a whole battery of actions: from limiting themselves to praying or displaying anti-abortion banners to reprimanding women, giving them toy fetuses, offering them ultrasounds or approaching them to try to convince them not to enter. Its activity is not new, but it has returned to the agenda this week after learning that the PSOE has registered an initiative in Congress to include a specific type in the Penal Code that persecutes those who "harass or coerce" women in their exercise of the right to voluntary interruption of pregnancy.
Thousands of women are forced each year to travel to other provinces to have an abortion
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