A sign with the question “If you abort now, who are we going to rape in five or six years?” appeared in Spain and on social networks. It is true that it appeared, but it was not the Church that did it.
Photographs circulating on social networks show a poster, supposedly prepared by the Spanish Episcopal Conference, with the following message, in Spanish: “If you abort now, who are we going to rape in five or six years?In the center of the poster appears the image of a fetus; at the bottom of the image, the logo of the Spanish Episcopal Conference.
Despite having begun to go viral in Spain, it was already possible to identify several publications that were circulating in Portugal and in Portuguese — even with references to World Youth Dayan international event of the Catholic Church that takes place in Lisbon in the summer of this year.
After all, what is it about? The Observer contacted the Spanish Episcopal Conference, but did not receive a response to the request for clarification. Still, is the poster real? And who did it? The Spanish press tells the story.
According to the newspaper El Diario Vasco, from the Basque Country, the poster initially appeared on February 22 of this year, a Wednesday, in the Plaza del Centenario in San Sebastián, in that Spanish autonomous community. The poster would be withdrawn that same day by the Basque City Council, but not before generating a great social controversy — although the perpetrators have not been identified.
Even so, the context of the place where the poster was placed helps to understand what could have been at stake: 100 meters away is the Askabide clinic, where voluntary termination of pregnancy is practiced. In recent months, according to several Spanish newspapers, employees and clients of the clinic have denounced a climate of harassment by anti-abortion protestersmany linked to the Catholic Church and to ultra-conservative and extreme right-wing groups.
The succession of protests even led a local court in San Sebastián to Prohibit demonstrations within a radius of 100 meters around the clinic.
Although the authorship of the action has not been identified, the camera confirmed that they were illegal posters (which were even pasted on legally placed posters). The Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia says that the most speculated hypothesis is that the poster was placed by abortion groups against the Catholic Church and more radical movements, which oppose the practice of abortion.
Conclusion
The Catholic Church in Spain, through the Spanish Episcopal Conference and the diocese of San Sebastián, has not ruled at any time, by any official source, on the controversy created by the cartel. The poster placed in February in front of an abortion clinic in San Sebastián, Spain, was allegedly an initiative directed precisely against the Catholic Church, and not something promoted by the Spanish Episcopal Conference, despite the fact that the logo of the institution appears on the sign.
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