Rafael Pinto Borges
December 2, 2025
Pablo Mariñoso
Courtesy of Pablo Mariñoso
Pablo Mariñoso is a graduate in international relations, a reporter for La Gaceta, and a regular contributor to other Spanish media. In view of the government’s new pro-abortion offensive, which intends to enshrine the right to abortion in the Spanish Constitution, Mariñoso is the promoter of the quierosermadre.org (I want to be a mother) initiative.
The government of Pedro Sánchez, through the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Equality, has launched the website quieroabortar.org (I want to abort), a public website that belongs to the ministry but bears the seal of ‘Defensores dels Drets Sexuals i Reproductius’ (Association of Defenders of Sexual and Reproductive Rights), better known as ‘L’Associació,’ a Catalan association formed by pro-abortion activist women who have provided all the information and have practically made the government’s website. In fact, some tabs are misspelled or in Catalan; another detail is that the page indicates where to have an abortion in the different regions of Spain and, separately, in Catalonia.
The website is full of euphemisms, falsehoods, and half-truths, and the most worrying thing is that the alternative that the government gives to a pregnant woman is abortion.
That’s right. After reading the government’s website, I came up with the idea to do the same thing, but from a completely opposite approach, that is, from a pro-life position. For example, in both pages there is a map, but in quierosermadre.org, instead of indicating where the abortion centers are, it shows the location of the pro-life centers.
To begin with, the website pretends to bypass the limits of Spanish legislation. It points out the three cases in which abortion is decriminalized and the 22-week limit and, by clicking on a tab, it tells you how you can bypass the 22 week limit by having an abortion in a foreign country. Or it provides information on how a girl under the age of 16 can have an abortion and how she needs parental approval. The website explains step-by-step how to get an abortion approved by a court if her legal guardians or parents do not give their permission.
The website lies when it speaks of surgical abortion as a harmless, administrative process that lasts about 15-20 minutes and has no risk for the woman, and does the same with pharmacological abortion when the truth is that abortion has consequences for the mother, both physical and emotional.
Indeed, the idea is to explain to pregnant women all the pro-life resources that exist in Spain. For example, the website shows step by step how to continue with the pregnancy in different circumstances: if the baby has Down syndrome, it tells you which support groups are available; if the problem is economic, it tells you where to apply for benefits; if the problem is social, it directs you to the most appropriate organizations, etc. The website will function as the largest pro-life encyclopedia in Spain to give a voice to all the private and public initiatives that exist.
We have a registry of all the aids offered by the state, through the national and autonomous administration, for pregnant women, and we have included a guide on how to apply for these aids. It is true that the state is turning its back on life, but there are still some resources such as grants, subsidies, aids, bonuses, and deductions.
Not really, although the support is greater in the autonomous communities than on the part of the State. Extremadura is where there are more bonuses and tax breaks for pregnant women and new mothers. All the support there from the administration is economic. If you need a psychologist for an abortion process, you will find one in the public health system, but if you need psychological support to continue with the pregnancy, there is no help.
However, even if it is scarce, there is more financial help than people think, and we must make the most of it.
We gather all the work of the more than 50 pro-life organizations in Spain. Some offer financial support, others legal assistance, emotional accompaniment, spiritual care, primary care, etc. In Spain there is a large pro-life civil society that is often not made known, and women are not aware of all these resources.
The truth is that we have launched it in record time, and we could not notify all the organizations before the launching, and some of them have found out about it through the media. So we have been talking to the different organizations to explain the idea, and, in general, the reception has been very good.
I think there are two sides to it. On the one hand, when news broke about an envelope of cash being paid to a socialist politician accused of corruption, Pedro Sánchez announced his intention to enshrine abortion in the Constitution. It’s clearly a strategic move because the government and the Socialist Party have been trying to divert attention from their problems throughout the entire legislative session. For them, abortion is like defending Palestine; I don’t think Pedro Sánchez is concerned about the Palestinians, he’s just using that flag to cover up his corruption.
On the other hand, for those of us who are believers, this whole abortion agenda is a manifestation of evil.
No, I do not see that as possible. However, the PP has announced that it is not going to support Sánchez’s proposal, which is a pleasant surprise and would make the proposal fail, but I see a consensual response from both parties as difficult. I am convinced that civil society will respond in all areas: in the streets, in social media, and in the courts.
