Feijóo copies Ayuso and announces a law of the 'unborn conceived' if he is president

MadridIsabel Díaz Ayuso approved last week, thanks to the PP's absolute majority in the Assembly of Madrid, a controversial law of the conceived but not born. The rule gives the embryo the status of a family unit member, so that, from the moment pregnancy is certified, families will be able to access maternity benefits without waiting for the birth. This is a measure that is part of in the cultural war against the progressivism of the Madrid president, which, one year before the regional elections, is in full competition with Vox to prevent this absolute majority from being undermined. In fact, a few days after Juanma Moreno Bonilla had to give in to the far-right to be invested president of Andalusia, Alberto Núñez Feijóo has announced that, if he is president of the Spanish government, he will follow in Ayuso's footsteps and promote a state law of conceived but not born.

"When a woman is expecting a child, I understand that it must be reflected in public sector aid," Feijóo argued this Monday in an interview with Antena 3. The PP leader stressed that he already did so in Galicia in 2011, although Ayuso, with the law she recently approved, has taken the scope of this framework, which stems from an ultra-conservative conception of life, even further. In Galicia, in fact, Feijóo's initiative had been promoted by an anti-abortion association, Red Madre, linked to the Catholic network Foro Español de la Familia. The arguments Ayuso deployed in last week's Thursday debate in the Assembly of Madrid have reminiscences of those used against abortion, even though the norm does not directly refer to the termination of pregnancy.

"The unborn child is a person from the first minute, and therefore has rights. Madrid is the first region to recognize this in its policies. In defense of life," the Madrid president summarized on X, who also maintains ties with ultra-Catholic and anti-abortion organizations such as the Jaime Mayor Oreja Foundation, which months ago expressed its support for this initiative by the PP of Madrid. It should be remembered that Ayuso declared herself in rebellion against the obligation to create a register of conscientious objectors to facilitate abortion in public healthcare and that her chief of staff, the controversial Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, defends these initiatives on X with the justification that "it is the revolution against the leftist "}woke culture." In a message on this social network on the day the law was approved, Ayuso's right-hand man summarized the law of the "unborn child" as follows: "It means that, just when it has been fertilized, before showering, what the woman has in her womb is a person with rights."

Criticisms from the left

"In reality, this law questions women's rights to decide about their own bodies, which is a heritage of decades of struggle by the feminist movement, and which will not be at risk because the PP and Ayuso now want to wink at the far-right," insisted the head of the opposition, the spokesperson for Més Madrid in the Assembly of Madrid, Manuela Bergerot, on the day of the parliamentary debate. The Madrid left, moreover, has criticized Ayuso for promoting aid for unborn conceived children when she "abandons boys and girls who are at 35 degrees in schools or have 140,000 children without a pediatrician," in reference to the lack of investment in public services. At the state level, Podem also criticized this Monday that Feijóo is "increasingly adopting ultraconservative positions," attributing it to "the fear that Ayuso might cut his throat," in the words of its spokesperson, Pablo Fernández.