Archive · 3 Oct 2025
Spain Aims to Enshrine Abortion Rights in Constitution
Spain's government wants to make sure women can have abortions and that it's protected by the country's main laws.
They want to do this because some people around the world are trying to make it harder for women to get abortions.
Spain made abortion legal 40 years ago, and now they want to ensure it's always allowed.
The government wants to stop anyone from giving women false information that might try to stop them from having an abortion, relying on scientific advice.
To do this, they need other political parties to agree to change the rules.
Spain's government aims to make abortion a constitutional right.
This would make Spain the second country to do so, after France.
The move comes 40 years after abortion was legalized in Spain.
The government wants to prevent women from receiving misleading information.
The reform requires backing from a majority in the lower house of parliament.
- Who
- Spanish government led by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez
- What
- Plans to make abortion a constitutional right.
- When
- Announced on Friday, following Madrid's city council approval.
- Where
- Spain
- Why
- To protect reproductive freedom amid global efforts to restrict it.
Government
Opposition
Information on Abortion
Government
Support abortion-related information based on objective scientific evidence.
Opposition
Supports giving women considering abortions information on "post-abortion syndrome."
- Government
- Leftist coalition (Socialists and hard left)
- Action
- Enshrining abortion rights in the constitution
- Goal
- Protect reproductive freedom
- Context
- 40 years after abortion was legalized
- Requirement
- Support from 3/5 of the lower house to pass