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How They Abort in Spain In the early days of November 1983, a conference was held in the beautiful old city of Barcelona, Spain. On this day, this majestic city facing the Mediterranean Sea was overtaken by thousands of Spanish feminists, gathered there to conference on how to best change Spain’s protective abortion laws. At the height of the convention, two young pregnant women were taken into a conference room and aborted. The abortions were taped for posterity and at the next day’s general assembly the leading feminists of the day held up two glass jars containing the remains of the two aborted children. The thunderous applause led to cheers and screams of delight as the two dead babies were displayed high above the heads of the speakers as if they were trophies. Those there report that the room shook from the stomping of feet and the chants that followed. From the stage, as the dead children were continuously displayed, the speakers claimed that this was the only way for Spanish women to reach the utmost of equality. They were empowered by the “courageous” acts of the unnamed abortionist and began a pro-abortion campaign never before seen in that country. Within months of that protest, Spain loosened its once protective laws to allow abortions in case of the mother’s life, the mother’s health, rape or incest, or fetal deformity. The 1985 law placed some loosely defined prohibitions on all of those such as having two doctors agree that the unborn child is deformed, or that the rape be reported before those abortions are performed. In 1991, the Spanish Supreme Court relaxed the laws even further, stating that abortions for social issues would be allowed on a case-by-case basis. Spanish women now abort in record numbers, and abortion has become a lucrative industry in that Roman Catholic country. Some critics, and not all of them pro-life, now believe the number of abortions is out of control. They realize that loopholes in the law are stretched and that once again money rules this industry—not a concern for women’s health or women’s equality. Last year a television station decided to investigate the claims of some of these critics and produced some of the most harrowing and disturbing 12 minutes of television ever seen. The producers at Intereconomia TV wanted to get the “inside story” of what was happening in Spanish abortion clinics and how flagrant their violations of the law have become. A doctor was hired to pose as a practicing abortionist applying for a job at one of Madrid’s busiest abortion clinics. Once fitted with a hidden camera and a microphone, the doctor enters the offices of the clinic and hands the receptionist his resume. Instead of a thorough check, or even confirmation that this man is indeed a doctor in good standing, he is immediately interviewed by the clinic owner. They walk into a small room off to the side of where abortions are being performed and he is interviewed for just a few minutes before being offered a position. The clinic owner explains how abortions are paid for, and how nurses have been performing them in the absence of a doctor. He says the nurses know what they’re doing and only call him when there is a slight complication. The doctor is told that he would be paid 170 euros for up to four abortions and that any more after that he would receive 220 euros. He is asked to return in two weeks and do a training session with the abortionist on hand. The report then continues when the doctor returns to the clinic on his appointed day. He is met by nurses and the doctor who performs the abortions. He is told that they have four clients in house and that all have been cleared for abortions by a therapist that comes in the mornings and signs all of the girls’ documents stating that these abortions are all needed due to “mental health” reasons. The abortionist jokes at how the therapist comes in and, without ever reading the case histories, simply signs the forms so that the abortions can be performed. All four girls there that day are beyond the 22-week mark in their pregnancies, the babies have already been killed with saline, and they are waiting for the mothers to expel their dead children. One of the patients is a 15-year-old girl accompanied to the clinic by her father. The doctor is taken back into the room where the first young woman is having contractions and is about to expel her child. The nurse throws a rag over the girl’s midsection and waits for the baby to come out. Once the dead baby is delivered with the help of the nurse, it is wrapped in that same cloth and placed in a garbage bag. The abortionist then goes to work on delivering the placenta and stabilizing the young woman. Within minutes of that first abortion, a second patient begins to expel her dead baby. The doctor actually sees the baby come out before the nurse places another rag over it and is visibly troubled. That baby is then placed in the same garbage bag as the first. As they wait for the third and fourth woman to abort they talk about abortion. The doctor/journalist goes to the garbage bag where the babies have been placed and uncovers them for all to see. Perfectly formed, burned by the saline, he makes sure the camera captures the grisly sight. The abortionist chastises him saying that she never looks at “those” and he prods, asking, “Why, because you’re a mother?” She never answers the question. This program was broadcast nationwide in Spain last year. The children are clearly seen as being brutalized and dehumanized. Equally troubling is the nonchalant manner by which the owner and abortionist kill these babies. The video has made its way to YouTube and it is available to be seen with English subtitles. It is cruel and harsh and they are the images of an unimaginable evil, but they are images of what is happening in abortion clinics today. There were no loud cheers and thunderous applause to greet this video. Shame on a nation is what the result has been. There are signs the pro-abortion feminist crusade to attain absolute abortion on demand has been dealt a staggering blow. The truly courageous producers and reporters at Intereconomia are to be thanked for their candor and honesty about what abortion truly is. Would that the producers of any of the news stations in this country take the example of their Spanish brethren, and for once in the 35 years since Roe v. Wade, allow the truth of what abortion is and what abortion does be shown to the American public. I don’t see that happening, but you can find the Spanish video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0WXNl3HCA4. |