The Community of Madrid, led by Isabel Diaz Ayusois the autonomous administration that allocates the most public funds to anti-abortion groups in Spain, with 2.7 million euros awarded between 2019 and 2024 to anti-abortion organizations. They are followed by Andalusia, which has contributed 1.1 million, and the Madrid City Council, with one million. This is how he has advanced it an investigation of CRITICISM in collaboration with the Association for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (ADSR), published this Monday.
Although these associations are presented as a supposed space to support pregnant women in vulnerable situationsin practice they end up conditioning their reproductive rights. Mother Network (one of the beneficiary entities), for example, defends “alternatives to the voluntary interruption of pregnancy” and actively participates in awareness campaigns that question the right to abortion.
In comparison, Catalonia has allocated approximately 260,000 euros to the Pro Life Foundation over a similar period, reflecting a significant difference in the volume of resources. While the bulk of public institutions throughout the State that have participated in subsidizing more than fifty anti-abortion organizations amount to 51. Among them is also the central government of the PSOE with Unidas Podemos, at the time, and the PSOE with Sumar currently. have been located 309 grants in total granted during the last four years, according to the Ministry of Finance database.
It is assumed that allocating public money to these types of entities contradicts the modification of the organic law on sexual and reproductive health of the year 2023. The norm establishes that public administrations must promote non-profit entities that, from the feminist movement and civil society, act in the field of health and sexual and reproductive rights. As well as that “those organizations contrary to the right of voluntary interruption of pregnancy” will be excluded from said aid.
The problem is that, as detailed in the article CRITICISM“Not all calls for public subsidies include in their bases the requirement of having a human rights perspective“, so the “official speeches of these entities to protect and accompany maternity hospitals” end up being consistent with legal requirements.
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