Opinion: Spain's right wing parties are pushing ever more extreme positions on abortion

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plainspoken2015 Because killing unborn babies is ok.

The Catholic Church has a powerful hold in Spain, as anyone who has spent Santa Semana knows.

Notice how the only 'extreme' positions on abortion according to the media are ones that restrict its practice. There is no abortion to them that is so late in the pregnancy that it would be considered 'extreme'

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