Mock 'abortion package tour' travel agency launched in protest over Spanish law reform
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 @ 11:11 AM
CAMPAIGNERS fighting the proposed restrictions on abortion announced by Spain's minister of justice have set up a spoof travel agency offering trips to Europe for women wishing to terminate a pregnancy.
Dubbed 'Abortion Travel - the agency that shouldn't exist', the pretend online 'company' offers packages to London, Paris and Berlin ranging from 1,940 euros to 2,620 euros.
Its organisers even give women advice relating to where to travel to in Europe depending upon how far gone their pregnancy is and the national law relating to their stage of gestation.
Mostly, in northern Europe, the only restriction is that the foetus may not be old enough to run the risk of being born alive or surviving after being aborted, and laws limiting pregnancy terminations are based upon length of gestation rather than scenarios such as the mother's health or personal situation.
In practice, the women are actually putting their names - knowingly - on a petition, which has been signed by over 40,000 people so far and is due to be handed in to Parliament.
The firm itself does not in fact organise any trips or trade in any way - it is purely aimed at raising awareness of the types of agency which will almost certainly appear on the market, even if they have to go underground, should abortion become all but illegal.
Set up by Spain's outpost of the European Women's Lobby, known as CELEM, the travel site is another in a long series of protest moves calling for the forthcoming abortion reform to be scrapped.
Read more at thinkSPAIN.com