The ‘First Meeting in Defense of Life in the City of Valencia’ organized this Monday by the Department of Health of the Valencia City Council, in the hands of Vox, has generated rejection from the opposition parties in the town hall of the capital of Túria. On the day held within the framework of the initiative of the Provida organization that celebrates “World Day of the Unborn Child” every March 25, the Councilor for Health, José Gosálbez, defended that “abortion is not a constitutional right and It’s not in the Constitution.”
The Vox councilor has argued that “life is a fundamental good; and that our objective is its protection. And that is why we say yes to life and no to the culture of death, because having children is the most wonderful thing.” there is, and we are not going to judge women who have abortions; we are going to support them. Along these lines, as municipal sources have stated in a statement, Gosálbez has defended that “the most important thing we have is life and that is why we should not be afraid to defend it.”
The celebration of the day, even before its start, provoked complaints from the opposition who accused the mayor of València, María José Catalá, of bowing to Vox’s postulates.
The spokesperson for Compromís per València, Papi Robles, has announced that she will take the meeting to the Ombudsman for being “a flagrant violation of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Law.” “Institutions cannot try to alter the will of women to be or not to be mothers, much less with talks, typical of the last century, where the speakers are Vox deputies convicted of gender violence,” said Robles, who stressed the fact that one of the people who intervened was the Vox deputy in Congress, Carlos Flores Juberías. The parliamentarian was also a speaker last Friday at another institutional event promoted by another Vox department to speak as a professor of Constitutional Law.
A double presence of Flores Juberías that has also surprised the popular part of the Government who, yes, did not want to get into controversies about the content of the day, ensuring that another world day was being celebrated and that the council supported that celebration.
Some explanations that have not convinced the leader of Compromís, who has denounced that “Catalá and Vox are using the institutions to hold party rallies, paid for with public money.” For Robles, “the PP of Catalá is closer to religious fundamentalism than to liberal democracy.”
Along these lines, the socialist spokesperson in the Valencia City Council, Sandra Gómez, has censored the “frontal war that the Catalan government has started against women’s rights”, after the celebration of an anti-abortion day organized by Vox in facilities municipal.
“A frontal and generalized war agenda is being imposed by the PP and Vox government against women’s rights. We saw it on March 8, with the suppression of some days aimed at empowering women and now with some days where a war is once again opened on the right of women to decide about their motherhood,” said Gómez.
The socialist leader also wanted to highlight that high school students from a subsidized center participated in the anti-abortion days and regretted the use of public resources by the extreme right to indoctrinate minors at the hands of an abuser. “It is a shame that a municipal public facility is used to carry out anti-abortion events and that, in addition, minors are invited to participate.”
