Ana Recondo, Spanish minister for equality, said this would put undue pressure on a woman's right to choose. "It is the strategy of the far right to threaten striprights, to reinstate parity between women and men," she said.
Italy's Pro Vita & Famiglia pro-life and family group said Tuesday it would not enter the abortion consultancies, wherewomen receive certificates to have an abortion, even though the government was planning to allow them to. Abortion has been legal in Italy since 1974, but it is hard to get in practice with almost half the country's doctors conscious objectors on moral or religious grounds, rising to almost 90% in some regions. The government plans have sparked the ire of women's and abortion groups as well as liberal political parties. The Spanish government has not commented on Recondo's comments. The Italian government has yet to respond to the Spanish minister's comments on the abortion clinic plans. It is not known if the Italian government will allow pro-abortion groups into abortion clinics.