The president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has insisted this Thursday that the ruling of the High Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) which obliges her Government to create the register of abortion objectors will not imply singling out doctors who refuse to perform voluntary terminations of pregnancy.
During the control session in the Madrid Assembly this Thursday, the regional leader reiterated her stance and defended that her Executive will not draw up any list that identifies professionals by their stance on abortion. “I am not going to single out anyone for having an abortion or for not having one, but neither will I single out those doctors who do not want to do it,” she stated.
Ayuso also maintained that the regional Government will continue defending the freedom of healthcare professionals and rejected that the registry could become a tool to stigmatize doctors. In that sense, she insisted that “in Madrid no doctor will be singled out for not wanting to perform an abortion or for wanting to do so”.
The Madrid president thus responded to the opposition's criticisms after the judicial resolution that obliges the Community to initiate the procedures to create the objectors' registry, a measure included in the state legislation to organize the provision of the service in public healthcare.
From Más Madrid, its spokesperson in the Assembly, Manuela Bergerot, demanded of the regional Executive that it comply with the judicial resolution and guarantee access to abortion in public healthcare. “We said that Ayuso was going to jump through the hoop and Ayuso is going to jump through the hoop. Right to abortion. In public [healthcare]. In Madrid,” she affirmed.
Bergerot defended that the registry is necessary to guarantee that right and criticized the regional Government's position on this matter. “There will always be abortions. If the right cared about the safety and lives of women, the first thing it would do would be to guarantee the safe, free, and gratuitous right,” she maintained.
