Authorities in Madrid have mobilized 20 police officers to prevent about 10 young people from praying the rosary outside the Dator abortion clinic.
On December 28, the feast of the Holy Innocent Martyrs, officers also arrested Dr. Jesús Poveda, who held a one-man protest that day in front of the Dator clinic. The doctor has been helping mothers who want to have an abortion for almost forty years, preventing them from doing so.
In this way, Poveda made up for what is already a tradition of the pro-life movement in Spain, that is to say, he only performed an act of passive resistance on one day of the year.
Protest in front of an abortion clinic
Early Thursday morning, strangers placed posters at the Dator clinic with images of aborted children and messages: “He is an innocent saint” and “Are you going to look away?”
At exactly 9 a.m., Poveda came to the door of the abortion center and sat on the floor in protest. Shortly afterwards, a group of young people from the ‘Prayer is not a Crime’ movement arrived at the site with the intention of praying the rosary. The demonstrators carried a large wooden cross and an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Several police officers soon arrived on the scene and ordered the crowd to move a hundred meters away from the clinic. After following the orders of the police, they began to pray the rosary.
Later, speaking to journalists, the praying people said they had to leave the site in front of the clinic because a demonstration was scheduled to take place at the same time and place, which had previously been reported to the authorities. Pro-lifers argued that they were not legally a demonstration because their group consisted of fewer than 20 people.
Shortly afterwards, a group of less than ten feminists arrived outside the clinic. Outside the clinic there were posters with slogans such as “keep rosaries away from our ovaries”, “feminist struggle = trans struggle” and “I also had an abortion. So what?”
Around 9:30 a.m., the officers ordered Poveda to leave the area near the door of the abortion clinic, which he refused and passively resisted. The police then put him in a police car and took him to the police station.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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