A video of Spanish police violently beating up a group of women during a demonstration has gone viral. The women were protesting a draft bill that restricts the right to abort, only allowing the procedure in cases of rape and when there is a health risk.
The video, released by the Periodismo Humano news site, following the protest on Friday, has taken YouTube by storm, racking up over 300,000 views over the weekend. The footage shows members of the activist group ‘We decide’ talking to officers after the protest. Shouting can be heard and then officers, seemingly unprovoked, knock down a number of women and beat them with their truncheons.
The police officers wrestle the individuals to the ground before cuffing them and forcing them into a police vehicle. After being attacked by one of the officers, one of the women shouts: “son of a b…, don’t lay another finger on me!” prompting the police officer to hit her in the stomach and push her to the ground.
While being led away, one of the detained, who has her arms drawn up behind her back screams out in pain that the police are “breaking my arms”.
Sources within the Spanish police told news agency EFE that the three individuals arrested following the protest were brought in on charges of civil disobedience, resisting arrest and assaulting a member of law enforcement.
The video triggered a sharp reaction on social media, amid accusations of “police brutality, intimidation tactics and repression” on Twitter.
The protest itself was peaceful, attracting over 500 supporters, most of whom were women, to demonstrate against a draft bill stipulating a reform to the current Spanish abortion law. The demonstrators called for the resignation of Minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon, and the withdrawal of the draft bill.
The bill has not been approved by parliament, but has received majority support from Spain’s ruling political party, The People’s Party.
Stil from YouTube video/Jaime Alekos
The new legislation would restrict women’s right to abort, only allowing the procedure in cases of rape and when there is a serious threat to health. Currently, Spanish law allows women to abort without any restrictions up to 14 weeks into pregnancy
In addition, minors would be required to get consent from their parents to abort, something that was abolished in Spain in 2010.
The government has said it believes the current law is too liberal and the new bill would provide “defense both for the protection of the life of the unborn child and women’s rights”.
Rights groups have slammed the bill as unnecessary. Under the current law the number of abortions in Spain decreased by 5 percent in 2012, according to statistics released by the Health Ministry.
Gynecologist and spokesperson for the group ‘We decide,’ Isabel Serrano told RT’s Spanish sister channel, Actualidad RT, that the draft bill was an “enormous set-back” and takes Spain out of the European context.
Serrano went on to say that the bill will not reduce abortion rates; instead, women are likely to carry out the procedure “illegally” and in “much worse conditions”.
The point that you are obviously too stupid to understand is that the doctors are murdering no person, get that no person. A fetus is not a human being until it is viable outside the woman’s womb. Up until that time it is simply another extension of her body and only she can decide what to do with it, only she, not you, not the government, no one but she. Now grow a brain!
Fire the lot of the police involved and then go after the scummy politicians that started the whole problem in the first place.
I have no sympathy for them, they were, after all, marching for their right to commit murder and we all know that’s immoral. What a man sows so shall he reap
Getting hustled by some police is much more tolerable than how the baby feels when it is getting butchered by the surgeon’s sword or maybe later by the nurses. No one can look at a live video of abortion (the baby tries to dodge the knife) and remain unchanged to this demonic practice which will eventually always catch up on the mother’s conscience and destroy her too.
I’ve often wondered how those who call themselves doctors committing murder after murder, day after day, month after month can sleep at night, and If those creatures are married, what must their families think of them? However, I suppose living in large homes in upscale neighborhoods, attending the best schools, taking exotic vacations and being known as the family of a “doctor” has also killed any conscience that they might have had.
What about the Hippocratic oath still administered to those entering the practice of medicine?
Still, an oath would mean nothing to someone who is nothing more than a butcher.
The point that you are obviously too stupid to understand is that the doctors are murdering no person, get that no person. A fetus is not a human being until it is viable outside the woman’s womb. Up until that time it is simply another extension of her body and only she can decide what to do with it, only she, not you, not the government, no one but she. Now grow a brain!
This is your perverse opinion and you have no facts to justify it. Unborn humans are fully aware. The baby is aware of the surgeon’s scalpel – watch the videos – it is wilful murder of a helpless child who had a life ahead of it. You were not aborted or you would not be posting.
I have five wonderful children and would be despising myself if I had butchered them.
You can see these children squirm in pain . Just calling it a fetus does not make the pain go away not the conscience of the mother as the years go by.
Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in your mother’s womb, I knew thee, and before thee out of the womb, I sanctified thee, I have set thee to be a prophet to the nations.”
One of the great truths revealed in Scripture is that the end is determined from the beginning. What I mean by this is that God sees the end from the beginning. He already has plans for you. He has thought of everything to succeed.
You must be totally Godless – like I once was – since I thought like you as a young man – but even some ungodly will turn away from inflicting pain on another living creature – you are not even in this category.