Google – AFP, 1 February 2014
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Thousands
of protesters rally against a reform of the Spain's abortion law
proposed by
the conservative government, in Madrid on February 1, 2014.
(AFP, Dani Pozo)
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Madrid —
Thousands of pro-choice campaigners converged on the Spanish capital Saturday
to voice their opposition to a government plan to restrict access to abortion
in the mainly Catholic country.
Demonstrators
shouting slogans and carrying banners that read "it is my right, it is my
life" crowded around a Madrid station to greet a "freedom train"
of protesters from northern Spain.
Under
pressure from the Catholic Church, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative
government announced on December 20 it would roll back a 2010 law that allows
women to opt freely for abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
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Protesters
rally against a reform of the
Spain's abortion law proposed by the
conservative government, in Madrid on
February 1, 2014 (AFP, Dani Pozo)
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The move
has outraged pro-choice campaigners, who say the new legislation would roll
back the decades in Spain, returning to conditions similar to those of a more
restrictive 1985 law.
"I
would never have imagined we would find ourselves back here, fighting for
something we thought we had won," said 57-year-old protestor Maria Pilar
Sanchez.
"We
don't want to turn the clock back 40 years. Having an abortion used to be a
crime in Spain. We don't want to return to that."
Marisa
Vallero, 55, recalled how she had to fly to London 35 years ago. "We were
treated like terrorists," she said.
The
"freedom train" left Gijon in northern Spain on Friday with around
100 pro-choice campaigners on board. Supporting protests were also planned in
Paris and London.
The aim is
"to tell conservative (Justice) Minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon that we
don't want him to change the law," said Begona Pinero, whose feminist
group came up with the idea for the journey.
"We
the women are free and we are capable of deciding when we want to become a
mother," she told AFP.
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A women
holds a sign reading "Free mother"
during a protest against a reform
of Spain's
abortion law proposed by the conservative
government, in Madrid on
February 1, 2014
(AFP, Dani Pozo)
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Her group
will join up with thousands more protesters from elsewhere in Spain but also
from other countries including France, to protest in front of parliament.
The new
bill would toughen the conditions for aborting in cases of malformation of the
foetus, which the current law authorises freely up to 22 weeks.
It would
also oblige girls aged under 18 to get their parents' consent to have
abortions.
Hundreds of
people protested in Brussels on Wednesday against the planned Spanish law
change and protests are also expected elsewhere in Europe on Saturday.
Pro-choice
adherents will march on the Spanish embassy in Paris, while a demonstration is
also planned in London.
French
Social Affairs Minister Marisol Touraine said last week the Spanish plan to
tighten abortion laws would "take women back to the Stone Age" and
called for action to ensure it was rejected.
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Spanish
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy
speaks during a press conference in
Rome on
January 27, 2014 (AFP/File,
Andreas Solaro)
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In Spain,
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's government has repeatedly postponed the abortion
reform, reportedly struggled with internal dissent, after promising in its 2011
election campaign to tighten the rules.
The delay
has drawn cries of impatience from the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy.
Last April,
the head of Spain's Catholic Church, Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, said
the 2010 law had "led to a rise in the number of abortions to terrifying
levels".
The
national health ministry said about 118,000 abortions were carried out in Spain
in 2011, up from 113,000 the previous year.
Campaigners
dispute the effect of the legal changes on abortion numbers.
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Question: Dear Kryon, thank you for the many communications you have given. They have been enlightening in many ways. I hope this is not a rude question, but it is a subject that I have not seen addressed in the collection of Questions and Answers. I want to know: What is the morality of stopping someone's new life in the physical plane, by abortion? And what is the karma to the person who helps to accomplish an abortion? I think it will depend on when a Human life begins. When life begins is a moment that is very important to those who oppose abortion and those who say it is allowable.
Do you have a decisive response to guide those who receive your words?
Answer: [from Lee Carroll] We have tried to "paint" Kryon into a corner on this many times, since it really is an important issue in our society. Kryon says this: "Human life actually begins when the intent of the entities involved in the planning session is to create it." It's not a biological answer, and it won't please either side.
This places it far before any kind of biological morality decision. Kryon has said that there is no judgement in the choice of Humans... including this one. When it occurs, there is also no horrible karmic payback. But there IS energy created that affects everyone around the event. Sometimes these lives come and go to create lessons for those involved, then these terminated lives return almost immediately, often within the next pregnancy (sometimes changing gender). If there is no next pregnancy, often it's in a very close family group.
God is not in a vacuum concerning these things, and often they are set-ups, and are executed with the agreement of all parties in advance. This is far different than our society wishes to believe. They want to paint a black and white answer to when life occurs, and set rules on what you can and cannot do with it. Instead, Kryon's answer gives honor and validity to the fact that you are not here by accident, and the things that take place in your lives are not random. Not to mention the fact that your free choice is the free choice of God (since you are a piece of God).
So we leave the biological cultural decisions for those who wish to make them, but we have heard the spiritual answers many times... that these things are far more than they appear, and are all part of our spiritual setups, and they are honored.
This places it far before any kind of biological morality decision. Kryon has said that there is no judgement in the choice of Humans... including this one. When it occurs, there is also no horrible karmic payback. But there IS energy created that affects everyone around the event. Sometimes these lives come and go to create lessons for those involved, then these terminated lives return almost immediately, often within the next pregnancy (sometimes changing gender). If there is no next pregnancy, often it's in a very close family group.
God is not in a vacuum concerning these things, and often they are set-ups, and are executed with the agreement of all parties in advance. This is far different than our society wishes to believe. They want to paint a black and white answer to when life occurs, and set rules on what you can and cannot do with it. Instead, Kryon's answer gives honor and validity to the fact that you are not here by accident, and the things that take place in your lives are not random. Not to mention the fact that your free choice is the free choice of God (since you are a piece of God).
So we leave the biological cultural decisions for those who wish to make them, but we have heard the spiritual answers many times... that these things are far more than they appear, and are all part of our spiritual setups, and they are honored.
"Recalibration of Knowledge" – Jan 14, 2012 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: Channelling, God-Creator, Benevolent Design, New Energy, Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Reincarnation, Gaia, Old Energies (Africa,Terrorists, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela ... ), Weather, Rejuvenation, Akash, Nicolas Tesla / Einstein, Cold Fusion, Magnetics, Lemuria, Atomic Structure (Electrons, Particles, Polarity, Self Balancing, Magnetism, Higgs Boson), Entanglement, "Life is necessary for a Universe to exist and not the other way around", DNA, Humans (Baby getting ready, First Breath, Stem Cells, Embryonic Stem Cells, Rejuvenation), Global Unity, ... etc.) - (Text Version)
"... I want to define life for you - not biological life, but spiritual life. So for all those intellectuals, just hold on, for many won't like this. Spiritual life, as measured by Spirit, is when a Human has free choice. When is that? It's when they take their first breath. Not in utero. There will be those who will say, "That's wrong, that's wrong. The soul in the woman's body is alive!" Just wait. I'm talking about spiritually. That which Spirit sees, and it's when you come from the other side of the veil and take your first breath.
A child with the mother has no free choice. That child is linked to the choice of the mother until it is born. It is, indeed, a soul in preparation for free choice, and there are many attributes that are spiritual that we have discussed before about how that soul reacts. But now I'm discussing life with polarity [duality], free choice.
But let's discuss that "child inside" for a moment, for there is a process I want you to know about. I want to talk about 240 days into the pregnancy. At about that time, the child has perfect DNA. It hasn't taken its first breath. The DNA hasn't measured the energy of the planet yet, since it is contained. Did you realize that? Inside the womb is a perfect child. The child's DNA has all the attributes of the Akash and also the parent, but it's different in a way you have not been told. The DNA is 100% as designed.
The quantum instructions within the DNA are all talking to the biology of the child,, getting ready for the first breath. ..."
"THE THREE WINDS" – Feb 23-24, 2013 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Humanity, Home - other side of the veil, Wind of Birth - Birth, Wind of Existence - Life, Wind of Transition - Death)
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