MADRID, January 3, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-lifers in several Spanish cities gathered during the Christian feast of the Holy Innocents, to show support for a reform that seeks to restrict abortion in the country.
In Barcelona, the Youth of Saint Joseph led the rally in Cathedral Square.
Pro-abortion activists interrupted the peaceful manifestation singing Christmas carols in favor of abortion, and then proceeded to “yell, insult, and spit at us,” report the Youth of Saint Joseph’s on their website. “They threw objects at us to stop us from being the voice of the voiceless,” their site says.
The cities of Madrid, Valencia, and San Fernando also held pro-life gatherings.
According to local media, Valencia drew 300 pro-lifer activists. In the city of San Fernando, advocates gathered to pray the Rosary to show their support for life.
“We felt like Saint Joseph in the day of Holy Innocents,” they told the Spanish news source HazteOir. “We were guarding life, alone and hidden in the midst of a world that didn’t recognize” that they were trying to kill the Son of God.
“We must bear witness against evil,” said Sergio Plaza, from Valencia’s Saint Andrew’s Cathedral. “Life is the first right. We all have a right to grow old.”
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He noted how “all troubled mothers deserve our support and comprehension. May Christ’s light shine upon them so that they may sacrifice themselves for their children, instead of giving their children up to death,” he added.
The current law was passed in 2010 by the Spanish Socialist Workers Party and permits abortion on demand until 14 weeks gestation. It allows eugenic abortions up to 22 weeks in the case of fetal deformity and also lets 16- and 17-year-olds abort without their parents’ consent.
The reform law would allow abortions up to the 22nd week, but only when the physical or mental health of the