The PP vindicates the law of the conceived but not born and assures that it has been part of its ideology since 2025: "This law is consistent with our political trajectory"

The Popular Party has come out this Monday in defense of the proposal announced by Alberto Núñez Feijóo to recognize the conceived but unborn for the purposes of certain public aid. From the national leadership, they maintain that the initiative does not represent a shift in the party's position, but rather responds to a political line already included in its ideological paper and previously applied in Galicia during Feijóo's time at the head of the Xunta.

From Genoa, they have rejected the accusations made by left-wing parties, which consider that the measure represents a setback in women's reproductive rights. Sources from Feijóo's team have defended that the objective of the future norm is "to support motherhood, promote work-life balance" and offer more support to families, in a context marked by the decline in birth rates.

To support this position, the PP recalls that the reference to the conceived but unborn already appears in the Political Paper approved during the national congress held in 2025, where the party defended that this circumstance could be taken into account to access certain family benefits. The programmatic document itself states textually that "the conceived but unborn must be taken into consideration to access family benefits," within a chapter dedicated to the family as a "priority" for the party. The text goes further by defending that birth rates "should occupy a central place on the political agenda" and by rejecting what it describes as a vision of the family as an "oppressive space."

The national leadership has also stressed that Feijóo already promoted a similar measure in Galicia during his time as regional president. The Galician law on family support, approved in 2011, contemplates that the conceived child can be counted in certain cases related to large families when this means a greater benefit for those interested. "The conceived son or daughter will be assimilated to the descendant, and always provided that by applying this assimilation a greater benefit is obtained."

Ayuso's turn: from "legal and safe" abortion to legislating for the "unborn"

The law approved in the Madrid Assembly last July 2, promoted by Isabel Díaz Ayuso with the votes of PP and Vox, recognizes the so-called 'nasciturus' as another member of the family unit for administrative purposes from the moment pregnancy is accredited, giving access to aid and tax benefits linked to birth. The text arrived late to the plenary session, as it was scheduled to be voted on June 18, but the Assembly's Bureau stopped its processing a day before after the PSOE-M warned that the file was incomplete.

Among the details of the norm is that families with two children who are expecting a third will be able to access the benefits from the day after the end of the 14th week of gestation, through a certificate of "family assimilated to large family" valid until three months after the expected date of delivery. In multiple pregnancies, each conceived will be counted independently. During its processing, the PP incorporated three amendments, one to unify the minimum week of gestation required, another that enables the regulatory development of the law, and a third to allow its processing both telematically and in person.

The norm also comes accompanied by a change in Ayuso's own discourse. The Madrid president, who in 2023 defended in an interview on Antena 3 that abortion "should be legal, safe," although "infrequent," now speaks of "every life matters from the first breath" and presents this law as part of an agenda to "legislate for the unborn," a turn that contrasts with her position of just two years ago.