Spain Used to Protect Babies, Now It Celebrates Abortions

There are moments that define a nation’s moral collapse. In November 1983, Barcelona was one of them.

That month, thousands of feminists filled the city for a conference on “women’s rights.” In a shocking display, two pregnant women were taken into a side room at the conference center and aborted. The next day, the organizers brought the remains of those children to the main hall. Two glass jars. Two tiny, shredded, and mutilated bodies. They held them up to the crowd like trophies.

The hall erupted like a stadium after a goal. Applause crashed against the walls, feet pounded the floor, and voices rose in a feverish roar. The crowd cheered as two glass jars, each holding what had once been a living child, were lifted into the air. They called it progress because, to them, killing babies is the price of enlightenment. They called it freedom because they believed freedom demanded the blood of the innocents.  They called it equality, which required babies’ corpses to achieve. In truth, what they celebrated, with manic joy, was death—and they didn’t even flinch.

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That grotesque moment marked the birth of Spain’s modern abortion movement. Not a movement built on compassion, but on spectacle. Not born from a cry for justice, but from the deliberate killing of children to make a political point.

Spain’s laws followed. In 1985, abortion was legalized under exceptions for rape, fetal deformity, or danger to the mother’s health. Within a few years, courts stretched those definitions until abortion on demand became the reality. The country that once stood as a defender of the unborn turned its back on them, piece by piece, law by law.

And then came the laboratories. In Barcelona, at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, scientists filmed living human embryos as they implanted themselves into synthetic tissue. They created a fake womb, placed embryos inside it, and recorded their movement for twenty-four hours. These embryos were living human beings, each with a unique genetic identity. They weren’t treated as children; they were treated as content. Filmed, studied, discarded.

That is the face of “progress” in Spain today. Human life reduced to research footage. A baby’s first act of agency turned into a scientific experiment, followed by destruction, death, and discarding. Nothing about that was ethical. Nothing about that was humane. It’s the coldest kind of cruelty, dressed up as innovation.

Now the government wants to take the next step. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his Godless Socialist coalition want to codify abortion-on-demand into the Spanish Constitution itself. They have proposed adding a “right to voluntary termination of pregnancy” under the article that protects health care. If they succeed, abortion will no longer be a legal option. It will be a constitutional guarantee.

This is what happens when a culture loses its soul. Spain once built cathedrals that reached toward heaven. It now builds policies that reach for the grave. The same government that funds Nazi-esque experiments on embryos now wants to enshrine the destruction of the unborn as a civic virtue. They have taken what was once unthinkable and declared it sacred.

This is not freedom. It is a public endorsement of killing, and it is a rejection of the faith and science that shaped Spain for centuries. It is a declaration that human life, when inconvenient, can be erased and the destruction applauded.

From that conference in 1983 to the laboratories of Barcelona to the steps of Parliament, the line is clear. Once a society cheers the torture of its children, it no longer knows what evil looks like. What began with shouts over glass jars holding tiny, broken bodies now ends with lawmakers engraving their deaths into the nation’s Constitution, turning the slaughter of the unborn into a symbol of national pride.

Spain was once a light of faith, culture, science, and learning. It has become a warning. A nation that calls death a right and life a burden has lost its way.

The world should pay attention. What began in Barcelona forty years ago has now reached the heart of Spain’s Constitution. A civilization that celebrates death will not stand for long.

LifeNews.com Note: Raimundo Rojas is the Outreach Director for the National Right to Life Committee. He is a former president of Florida Right to Life and has presented the pro-life message to millions in Spanish-language media outlets. He represents NRLC at the United Nations as an NGO. Rojas was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana, Cuba and he and his family escaped to the United States in 1968.