A Sunny Sunday: The Other Side Of Life…

Over one million people participated in this mobilization organizers said. They were protesting against the proposed liberalization of abortion which would abort freely within 14 weeks.

Seniors, families with children and strollers, groups of adolescents, religious and priests: A human tide has flooded the center of the Spanish capital. They were more than one million Catholics supported by the Church and the right to protest Saturday in Madrid against the proposed liberalization of abortion from the socialist government. The organizers have amounted to 1.5 million people participating in this event, while the Madrid region, ruled by conservatives, has put the figure of 1, 2 million participants...

Opus Dei runs the prestigious private hospital in Pamplona and the only medical school in the region, where abortion is one of the disciplines, with euthanasia, demonized. In the central building of the university campus, where the throne in the stern deck, a statue of the founder, Professor of Philosophy of Law Angela Aparisi returns on this local specificity: “Here we are Catholics and we protect life from fertilization. Our doctors are there to treat and relieve the patient, not to commit crimes...

This new offensive of the Spanish Church and ultra-conservative circles is the new law legalizing abortion. The current legislation, dating from 1985, not decriminalized abortion in three circumstances: in cases of rape, before the 12th week in cases of malformation of the fetus before the 22nd week in cases of “risk to health or physical psychic mother “… without time limit. Now, over 98% of candidates cite this third ground...

Posted in Bloggers Section. This Sunday Blog Post includes interesting cultural articles and photographs that I found during the week from England, France, Spain, and the USA. For this Sunday, I have chosen music from the Moody Blues including “Night in White Stain”, “I Know You Are Out There Somewhere”, “The Story In Your Eyes”, “The Other Side Of Life”, “No More Lies”, “Tuesday Afternoon”, and “Go Now”.

Blog Post includes: Poem of the week: Childhood by Anne Bradstreet — Clarkson on the midlife crisis — Testimony of Professor Jeffrey F. Addicott St. Mary’s University School of Law — Don’t miss the parade — Great Manifestation anti-avortement à Madrid — Navarre Catholic anti-abortion enclave in Spain — Neighbors thought dead man’s body was part of Halloween display — Scientists try to calm ‘2012 hysteria — Wiki: The Moody Blues

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