Dutch abortion ship sparks controversy in Spain

Blue_Tires

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Thu Oct-16-08 09:27 AM
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Dutch abortion ship sparks controversy in Spain

A Spanish pro-life group said it plans to protest the arrival on Thursday of a Dutch boat that is offering to provide abortions that circumvent Spain's strict laws.
The boat is due to anchor off the Mediterranean port of Valencia, the Dutch non-profit organisation Women on Waves said on its web site.

From Friday, it will offer abortions on the ship in international waters under the Netherlands' more liberal abortion laws.

This "symbolic initiative" will allow "abortions outside Spanish law for the first time in Spain's recent history, but without violating it," said Spanish gynaecologist Josep Lluis Carbonell, one of the promoters.

But it has already sparked controversy.

Valencia's conservative mayor Rita Barbera termed the plan a "provocation that has sparked indignation."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081015182545.kro529yr&show_article=1

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lynnertic

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Thu Oct-16-08 09:39 AM
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1. Creeeeeeeeepy. So I'm pregnant in Spain and I'm thinking, oh

a Dutch ship is coming to port today, I can get rid of this.

I think a lot is left out of the story... well, the 5 paragraphs of the story that were posted...

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Warpy

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Thu Oct-16-08 10:24 AM
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3. It beats doing blow jobs

to get enough money for a ticket to Amsterdam. It also beats going to one of the local butchers and winding up maimed or dead.

Antiabortion laws don't stop abortion. They only stop the safe ones.

Antiabortion laws kill women. That's the bottom line.

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Blue_Tires

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Thu Oct-16-08 12:07 PM
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5. +1

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lynnertic

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Fri Oct-17-08 08:47 AM
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6. True, and true again. But still,

creepy.

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Solly Mack

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Fri Oct-17-08 08:49 AM
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7. Yep!!

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lynnertic

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Fri Oct-17-08 09:00 AM
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8. So I've gone and found the info that the OP's story left out:

The Women on Waves ship is in Spain at the invitation of 33 spanish women's rights groups.

I feel much better now, the OP's story was written as if the ship suddenly and imposingly appeared, but that's not the case at all.

Visiting http://www.womenonwaves.org also taught me more about the struggle for women's rights throughout the world.

Women on Waves visits Spain at the invitation of 33 Spanish organisations (please click here for list) concerned with a better abortion law.The ship will arrive the 16 th of October at 17.00 in the yacht harbor of Valencia (former America's Cup).

By inviting of the Women on Waves ship, the Spanish organizations want to urge the Spanish government to:

* Remove abortion from the penal code. Abortion is a regular medical procedure and must be legislated as such.

* Abortion is a right. It should be guaranteed as a regular medical procedure and available in the public health system.

* Guarantee access to abortion care until 24 weeks of pregnancy as is recently supported by a scientific committee of the English Government.<1>

* Guarantee sexual education

* Free access to different types of contraceptives and full financial reimbursement for abortion care as is also normal for other medical procedures.

* Follow the recommendations of The World health Organisation (WHO) concerning medical abortions.<2>

ACAI (Association of Clinics Credited for the Interruption of the Pregnancy)
Amigas de Nicaragua
Asociación Aurora
BLOC
Ca Revolta
Casa de la Dona de València
Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir (CDD)
Clinica Deia de Valencia
Clinica Gine-Almeria, de Almeria
Clinica Ginemur de Murcia y Cartagena
Clinica Mediterranea Medica de Valencia y Castello
Clinica Tutor Medica de Barcelona
CNT de Alcoi
Col.lectiu Dones de Silla
Col.lectiu Feminista Victoria Sau de Xirivella
Comissió de Dones 8 de Març de València
Dones de Negre, Castelló
Dones de Xirivella en acció
Espai Violeta de Xirivella
Esguerra Republicana PV
Esguerra Unida PV
Intersindical Valenciana
Lesbianbanda
Marxa Mundial de Dones València
Mujeres Jóvenes Las Moiras
Partit Feminista Valencia
PCPV
Plataforma Feminista de València
Secretaría de la Dona CCOO-PV
Secretaría de la Mujer y la Igualdad de UGT-PV
Tribunal Permanente de Crímenes contra la Mujer
Valencia Solidaria
Xarxa Feminista de la Plana

<1>www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmsctech/1045/104505.htm
<2>www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/medical_abortion/index.html

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MountainLaurel

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Thu Oct-16-08 09:42 AM
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2. Women on Waves does good work

It's often the only safe option for desperate women.

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Lyric

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Thu Oct-16-08 10:25 AM
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4. Yep. Bless every one of them.

And Spain can cordially bite my ass.

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