” “Twelve associations will meet in front of the Health Ministry at 06.30 pm today to ask the Government and Parliament to ensure that the applicable legal regulations about abortion are strictly enforced. According to the international agency Fides, which relayed the news, "the associations demand that criminal law be strictly adhered to; that, in the application of the three assumptions, especially that of "a risk for the mental health of the mother", the letter and spirit of the applicable law be obeyed; that the civil services be more scrupulous in their medical inspections". In addition, the associations ask to "effectively prosecute the crime instead of favouring its impunity, to boost welfare measures in support of pregnant mothers and to promote alternatives to abortion, such as adoption". The associations that are going to take part in the sit-in include the Family Policy Institute, the Spanish Family Union, Sos Famiglia and HazteOir.org. According to the latter, "the assumption of a risk for the mental health of the mother" has been turned into a “law full of holes, which allows free abortion in Spain”; it accuses the civil services of negligence” for not using "due diligence in their medical inspections".” “
