Timid cries in favor of abortion in the vicinity of the Senate and speeches in support of the “cultural battle” in the old session hall of the Upper House have led to the beginning of the VI Transatlantic Summit that, with the motto “for freedom and the culture of life”organized this Monday in Madrid by the entity Political Network for Values (PNfV). The event, approved unanimously in mid-July by the Senate Board, with the vote of the three representatives of the PSOE, later suffered an attempted boycott by left-wing groups with the arguments that it is “anti-abortion, ultra-Catholic and reactionary.” .
“The Virgin Mary would also abort,” the two hundred attendees from 45 nations could hear as they entered the Senate to participate in the summit. The scream, cold as the morning, came from a small group of 13 womenwho gathered in the vicinity of the Upper House. From the Ministry of Equality, Minister Ana Redondo joined the criticism through a video in which she called for “more feminism” in the face of the “coven against freedom” at the anti-abortion summit that took place in the Upper House.
However, in the old session hall of Congress, interventions, such as that of Jaime Mayor Oreja, have focused on defending the need to maintain “the cultural debate”, despite the recent successes that their positions have registered in the latest electoral commitments in the West, as in the case of the United States. «The culture called woke has taken a step back»Mayor Oreja pointed out in reference to the defeat of Kamala Harris in the US, although he warned that it would be “a mistake to think that we have already won because there have been victorious elections.” Along these lines, he has asked to take “a step forward” and strengthen “our projects and lines of action, because this is a cultural battle.”
The one who was Minister of the Interior in Aznar’s first governments and a European parliamentarian until 2014, has also alluded to the criticism that the meeting has aroused, from some media and left-wing parties, calling it an “anti-abortion summit of the extreme right.” . «They call us fundamentalists because we defend the fundamentals, but it is just the opposite, because What we really defend is the regeneration of Europe and the Western World.
Regarding the attempted boycott of the summit, he explained that “we are winning, despite the fact that the dominant fashion continues to rage against us.” In that sense, he asked those present to «don’t lose your coola calm that must be sustained from the solidity of our arguments, and not from the embrace of extremism. “Let us know how to fulfill our commitment to the truth,” he concluded.
For his part, the until now president of PNfV, the Chilean José Antonio Kast, has also defended the right to hold this summit, in the face of the criticism received. “I only heard the word rosary and I was happy, they must have a rosary in their hands!” he said ironically in reference to the chants of “get your rosaries out of our ovaries!” sung by the small group of 13 women who were He demonstrated in the vicinity of the Senate upon the arrival of the attendees.
Kast has explained that the reason why “they try to cancel us, they hate us and they disqualify us” was given to him years ago by the Chilean professor and senator Jaime Guzmán: «They hate us because they fear us, and they fear us because they know we are irreducible». “He told us that our adversaries hate us because we have solid values and granite objectives.” Kast explained that Guzmán – “a man of faith, brave and who founded a university movement in which many of us were trained” – was later murdered “by left-wing terrorists, the kind who silence voices with bullets.” At the end of his speech, Kast announced that he was leaving the leadership of PNfV to focus on the Chilean presidential campaign, which he is running for for the third time.
The group of thirteen pro-abortion activists gathered near the Senate against the pro-life summit
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From outside, and without participating in the Senate, the Minister of Equality also wanted to be present at the summit, which she described as a “coven against freedom”, through a video broadcast on her social networks. «This attack on freedom, this attack on rights seems directly reprehensible and absolutely intolerable to us. Therefore, in the face of this attempt to reverse rights, there is only one way. Advancement in rights, more freedom and more feminism», Redondo asked in a video released by the Ministry of Equality.
Redondo has criticized that the Upper House has become “a theme park for the extreme right regarding the reproductive and sexual rights of women.” «These are rights that, on the other hand, have been conquered for decades and, therefore, this is a step backwards that seems truly intolerable to us. We are not going to allow the extreme right in the Senate to try to return us to the cavebecause what is really happening is a disaster,” he added. Furthermore, he has described the event as “a coven against freedom, against the freedom of women and against progress and advancement in rights and not only of women, but also of the LGTBI community.”
The conflict over holding the event arose in early October when press publications indicated that the Senate was going to host “a summit of the international extreme right against abortion.” As ABC learned then, the meeting had been unanimously approved on July 17 by the Senate Board, in which the PP has a majority (4 representatives), but also has the presence of three socialist senators, who at no time opposed.
It was as a result of the publications, when Socialist representatives accused the PP of “deceiving” them and claimed “ignorance” in an attempt to excuse their explicit support for the celebration. They also alleged that the minutes of that meeting were not known until the day before the Board meeting on September 3, although the truth is that the document appears in the Senate website and that both the complaints and the actions of the PSOE only became known after the news was publicized by a media outlet.
From that moment on, both the PSOE and various left-wing nationalist groups such as ERC, EH Bildu and the Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), joined by PNV and Junts, demanded that the PP suspend the summit. However, sources from the Senate Presidency have explained that The decision taken has not been revoked since the request made by PNfV meets the requirements for a room transfer. In fact, these types of events are common in the chambers, either requested by civil entities or political parties. Without going any further, on Monday afternoon the Congress hosts a Conference for the Right to Abortion, at the request of the Sumar Parliamentary Group.
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