. . MEDICAL: ABORTION : LAW: LEGISLATION : COUNTRIES: SPAIN : POLITCAL PROTEST: Thousands March in Madrid against Planned Abortion Limits . . Thousands March in Madrid against Planned Abortion Limits By Inmaculada Sanz MADRID Saturday February 1, 2014 10:57am EST Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/01/ us-spain-abortion-idUSBREA100E020140201
. A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/ofgautg . .(Reuters) - Thousands of people marched in Spain's capital on Saturday to protest against a government plan to limit abortions that has caused unusually open divisions in the ruling conservative People's Party.
.Protesters from around the country joined the biggest demonstration so far against a draft bill to restrict abortion to cases of rape or severe danger to the mother's health.
.Four years ago, Spain came in line with most of the rest of Europe when the then Socialist government legalised abortion on demand in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.
."This is a step backward. We're going back 30 years," said Pilar Abad, 58, among the demonstrators waving purple signs who marched from the main train station to the national parliament.
."We really hope that they'll change this bill during the parliamentary debate, that's why we're here," she said.
.Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's cabinet approved the draft bill on abortion in December - in a move widely seen as an attempt to appease his party's disgruntled right wing - but it has not been submitted yet to parliament for debate.
.Rajoy recently signalled he was open to modifying the proposal after critics from within the PP said he had failed to build party consensus for the bill and the changes would be out of step with public opinion.
.Polls show 80 percent of Spaniards, including practicing Catholics, support abortion on demand.
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