Spain: Abortion Bill Endangers Girls

https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/03/18/spain-abortion-bill-endangers-girls

The spanish "Popular Party" is supposed to withdraw that would force girls of 16-17 years old to get the consent od their parents to finish a pregnancy. The bill is currently being examinated at the spain congress.

The rights groups said the draft legislation poses a serious threat to the health and sexual and reproductive rights of girls and creates unjustified barriers to safe and legal abortion. International human rights law recognizes that access to safe and legal abortions is fundamental to women and girls’ exercise of their human rights, including the rights to life, freedom from discrimination, equality, health, and privacy.

Current Spanish law requires 16 and 17-year-olds to inform their legal representatives, but does not require the consent of those representatives. The current law removes even the notification requirement when there is the possibility notification could provoke a serious conflict or family violence, threats, coercion, abuse, or abandonment.

Personally I think that in most of the cases women should be able to decide themselves if they wanna keep a baby or not, before of keeping it and be a bad mother leaving aside your child.