“The Spanish doctors told me my son would not live for a year, that he would be blind, that his body would not grow, that he would be mentally disabled,” she said in a telephone interview. “But they said they could do nothing to help me.”
Critics say the new law, which would allow a termination after 22 weeks only if the mother's life was at risk or if the fetus were not viable, would be too restrictive.
“How can it be that in Spain we allow transsexuals to get a sex change, that gay people can marry, but we don't allow a woman to abort a child who has a severe disorder?” Botifoll asked. “That I should have to cross a border like a criminal to get a termination — that's shameful.”
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