Valladolid, (EFE).- Some four hundred demonstrators, according to police sources, have walked through several central streets of Valladolid, behind a banner that read “not one step back in our rights”, in a call of a state nature, to demand a safe and free abortion, with equal conditions in the different territories.
The protest, in which some men have also participated, started after 12:30 p.m. from the Plaza Fuente Dorada in the capital of Valladolid, carrying signs with the phrases “Let’s defend what we have conquered, let’s not return to the past”, “Long live, free and united by equality”, among others.
One of the spokespersons for the Feminist movement in León, Ana Vicente, explained to journalists that the call came from feminist organizations in the Castilian-Leonese community and was later extended after holding meetings with groups from other Spanish autonomies.
Organizations of the Canary Islands Andalusia Valencia Cantabria, Asturias and Madrid
Among the attendees were organizations from the Canary Islands, Andalusia, Valencia, Cantabria, Asturias and Madrid, explained Ana Vicente.
He added that it is a state protest because “far-right governments are a threat to women’s rights and are spreading in Spain and the rest of Europe.”
The spokeswoman has admitted that the new law has introduced improvements but has explained that there are difficulties such as that of someone who lives in the El Bieirzo region and has to go to Valladolid to terminate the pregnancy, which represents inequality.
Twenty-five percent of the women in Castilla y León live in towns
In this sense, she has argued that twenty-five percent of the women in Castilla y León live in towns and forty percent of the women in this Community have economic difficulties because they do not have autonomy.
“We defend that the right to abortion is effective and that the Autonomous Communities have to guarantee it” under equal conditions.
He has criticized the “obscurantism” of data in some autonomies and has given as an example that in a report from Castilla y León on the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, it is “hidden” until the last pages that, if you live in Segovia you have to go to Valladolid or if you reside in Soria to Madrid.
This situation also occurs in provinces of different autonomies, has stressed Ana Vicente, who has considered that the majority of women are informed about abortion in the public health and ends up in the private, because there are no resources in the public.
Sex when I want. Pregnancy when I decide
The protesters, after starting the tour, with the expectation of ending in the Plaza Mayor, have uttered protest shouts, have blew their whistles as they pass by the Vox headquarters, and have displayed banners with phrases such as “Sex when I want. Pregnancy when I decide” and “For the right of women to decide. Free and free abortion”.
The purpose of the call, with the slogan “Do you defend the full right of women to their sexual and reproductive health?” It has focused on demanding that the administrations, especially the autonomous ones, guarantee a right to safe, free and public abortion throughout the country, sources from the organization have summarized. EFE
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