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Spain: Nearly 80 percent of pregnant teens choose not to abort
Madrid, Spain, Jul 6, 2011 / 02:06 pm (CNA/Europa Press).- Nearly 80 percent of pregnant teenage girls in Spain choose to continue their pregnancies when they receive the necessary support and counseling, reported the Red Madre Foundation.
The director of the foundation, Carmina Garcia-Valdes, told reporters that since Spain’s new abortion law took effect one year ago, there has been a 45 percent increase in the number of teenage girls who have sought her organization’s assistance.
The foundation has helped more than 6,000 women choose life since it was founded in 2007.
In 2010, 53 percent of the 4,331 women helped by the foundation were between the ages of 14 and 20, up from 18 percent in 2009. Many of the women who seek out assistance are immigrants “who do not want to abortion but suffer from all kinds of pressure.”
Garcia-Valdes underscored that eight out of every 10 pregnant teens decided to continue on with their pregnancies, which shows that “teens do not want to abort,” and that those who do so are reacting to “pressure, in most cases, from their family members.”
catholicnewsagency.com/news/spain-nearly-80-percent-of-pregnant-teens-choose-not-to-abort/
Madrid, Spain, Jul 6, 2011 / 02:06 pm (CNA/Europa Press).- Nearly 80 percent of pregnant teenage girls in Spain choose to continue their pregnancies when they receive the necessary support and counseling, reported the Red Madre Foundation.
The director of the foundation, Carmina Garcia-Valdes, told reporters that since Spain’s new abortion law took effect one year ago, there has been a 45 percent increase in the number of teenage girls who have sought her organization’s assistance.
The foundation has helped more than 6,000 women choose life since it was founded in 2007.
In 2010, 53 percent of the 4,331 women helped by the foundation were between the ages of 14 and 20, up from 18 percent in 2009. Many of the women who seek out assistance are immigrants “who do not want to abortion but suffer from all kinds of pressure.”
Garcia-Valdes underscored that eight out of every 10 pregnant teens decided to continue on with their pregnancies, which shows that “teens do not want to abort,” and that those who do so are reacting to “pressure, in most cases, from their family members.”
catholicnewsagency.com/news/spain-nearly-80-percent-of-pregnant-teens-choose-not-to-abort/