An abortion in Lugo shows the devaluation of the lives of unborn babies in Spain

The culture of death has established the premise that there are human beings without the right to live and whom it is perfectly legal to kill.

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The only condition for killing these human beings is that they are unwanted by their mothers. Obviously, being unwanted by another person is no excuse for taking away someone's right to life, which is the most basic of human rights. If that right is rejected, if we give in to the culture of death—as St. John Paul II rightly called it—then all other human rights are threatened and human life is devalued to purely grotesque extremes, as has happened in other times.

Yesterday, the newspaper El Debate reported that the Public Prosecutor's Office is seeking a €1,000 fine for a mother from Lugo for aborting her six-month-old unborn child. The mother went to an abortion clinic at 27 weeks pregnant and they refused to terminate her pregnancy, because the legal limit is 22 weeks in cases where the victim of this monstrous process has a disease or defect, a condition for which many babies with Down syndrome are being terminated. The woman decided to kill her baby herself by inducing an abortion by ingesting a drug containing the active ingredient misoprostol.

So now we know the price of an unborn baby's life in Spain: one thousand euros. That's about the same as a decent bike or a laptop. One thousand euros is the maximum fine for riding a scooter without liability insurance. That's how cheap it is to kill an unborn baby in Spain.

Some people will say that aborting a six-month-old baby is not the same as killing a 12-week-old one, that is, within the time limit that Spain's monstrous abortion law (introduced by the PSOE and maintained by the PP) allows for getting rid of a baby with no other requirement than simply asking for it. Well, no. A human being is a human being from the moment of conception, as science has proven. It is at that moment that a person acquires the genetic identity that they will have throughout their life. Killing a 12-week-old human being is just as horrendous as killing a 12-year-old. What is abnormal is that we have come to accept one of these two murders as normal and that there is even a law that classifies it as a “right.”

Scientifically speaking, abortion is the termination of a human life. All the euphemisms, embellishments, and disguises used to describe it are nothing more than a deception to wrap up, cover up, and justify a crime, which is the appropriate description for the act of killing an innocent and defenseless human being, regardless of what the law says. Because a law that turns a crime into a right is an unjust and monstrous law that must be repealed, just as slavery laws and racist laws were repealed.

The fact that Spain has a law authorizing the killing of human beings at the beginning of their lives is shameful. I am convinced that one day this will make those of us who live in these times feel despicable. Indifference to this atrocity has spread dramatically throughout our society. There are politicians who claim to be defenders of life (in various parties) but who almost never talk about it. There are parishes where you can spend years going to Mass without the subject of abortion ever coming up, not even to pray for its victims. There are media outlets that claim to be Catholic and constantly avoid this issue. How did we get to this point?

I can think of some possible answers: laziness, cowardice, apathy... Whatever the case, the normalization of abortion in our society gives us a very unpleasant answer to questions we have all asked ourselves at some point: how could so many people accept something as horrific as slavery? How could anti-Semitic laws receive so much support in a European country in the 20th century? How is it possible that there are still parts of the world where things like female genital mutilation, the stoning of adulterous women, or the hanging of homosexuals are accepted? These are the effects of devaluing human life, a scourge that survives in our times and also in our society, in this society that we believe to be so advanced and so immune to the mistakes of the past, but which has been capable of normalizing something as aberrant as the act of killing an unborn baby.

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