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Support for Life and Family Cuts Across Political Lines

Spain Moves to Restrict Abortion, Ecuador's President Rejects Gender Ideology



ROCKFORD, Ill., -- World Congress of Families Managing Director Larry Jacobs said natural family advocates everywhere are "greatly encouraged by developments in Spain and Ecuador that cut across the ideological spectrum."
Spain's conservative government, elected in 2011, is moving to fulfill its campaign promise to begin protecting unborn children, while Ecuador's socialist president has roundly rejected the gender ideology fashionable in elitist circles. "This demonstrates that reverence for life and an appreciation for the centrality of the natural family shouldn't be restricted by political affiliation," Jacobs observed. "They should be above politics because they speak to the essential human condition and the survival of civilization." In Spain, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has proposed, and his cabinet has approved, a new law which will dismantle the abortion regime established by the Zapatero government. Among other salutary measures, the proposed law would limit abortion to the first 12 weeks (and then only in cases of rape or grave risk to a mother's health), transform abortion from a right to a crime excusable in certain circumstances, and require parental consent for a minor who meets the other criteria.

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World Congress of Families VI was held in Madrid in 2012. Organizer Ignacio Arsuaga, president of WCF Partner HazteOir, helped to hold the government to its pro-life pledge. In September, Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa, a socialist, threatened to resign if the legislature controlled by his party legalized abortion. Bowing to this pressure, the bill was withdrawn. In his last public address of 2013, Correa roundly rejected the gender agenda of sexual radicals as "absurd" and "very dangerous." He explained that the doctrine of gender fluidity is based on the dogma, "that natural men and women don't exist, that biological sex does not determine man or woman, but 'social conditions' do, and that one has a right to choose if one is a man or a woman." These "ideologies" exist "to justify the lifestyle of those who generate them," the Ecuadoran leader noted. "We are, thank God, men and women, different," "complementary," Correa added. "We should also add our thanks to Spanish President Mariano Rajoy and to Ecuador's President Rafael Correra," Jacobs observed. "Here are two men representing very different political traditions who are united in their defense of the natural family."


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