Preamble
In 2023, in the first year of a post-Roe vs Wade world, a big controversy has emerged in old, catholic Spain. The regional government in Castile-Leon has dared to propose a very sinful law by which doctors may offer the aborting mother the choice of an ultrasound and hear the baby’s heartbeat.
The powerful pro-abortion complex immediately reacted at full steam and with clockwork precision. Political parties in the right and left, journalists and even manipulated medical associations all reacted in concert to castigate those infidel, heterodox, extreme-right politicians that had dared to propose such «women-trashing» measures. Funnily enough, one of the main arguments against the measure was that such a Doppler ultrasound could harm the baby…. minutes before his execution. Sarcastic or cruelest remark ever?
All doctors? No! A handful of irreductible Ob-Gyns headed by Dr. Sanchez-Mendez resisted.
Still “Hipocratically” convinced that a doctor’s role is to heal and save lives, Dr Sanchez-Mendez lead the charge by writing a Heartbeat Manifesto that has been signed by more than 1,000 physicians in Spain alone so far in a week.
We now ask for your international solidarity for the pro-Heartbeat movement in Spain. Please read the Manifesto, click with your support and help us overcome this distopic pro-abortion nightmare.
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A HEARTBEAT MANIFESTO
For many years, they have tried to sell us that what was removed from a woman’s body during an abortion was a «clot» or «clump of cells.» But now we have discovered that this being has a heartbeat. In reality, this recent discovery that the world of politics and the media seem to have made is not so recent, since it was already known for many years by the most elementary embryologists. And not only that, but it is easily verifiable in the embryos of the human species from their 3rd-4th week of life onwards by performing a simple ultrasound.
Well, this important fact undoubtedly constitutes a fundamental part of those that must be considered when evaluating the so-called Legal Interruption of Pregnancy Law (ILE): the embryo-fetus has a heartbeat. The Patient’s Autonomy Law (41/2002) states that «patients have the right to know all the relevant information available in relation to any actions in the field of their healthcare» (article 4.1), «Clinical information belonging to any procedures needs to be accurate and true» (article 4.2), and obliges the doctor «not only to correctly provide his techniques, but also to comply with the duties of information» (article 2.6). Recently, a center where abortions are performed has been found guilty in the courts for hiding information about the negative consequences that such procedure can cause.
For all these reasons, I’m amazed that most Administration bodies, and even the governing bodies of some Medical Society, are trying by all means to hide this fact (the embryo-fetus has a heartbeat and this is verifiable by ultrasound) to women who have to make the difficult decision of whether to continue or end their pregnancy. A decision of great importance, irreversible, and for which they should, ethically and legally, have all the information. Of course, perhaps these institutions may consider that women are not sufficiently mature to manage the information properly, and that therefore they should be protected.
Making the decision whether to abort or not is something that cannot be done lightly, as it has obvious negative consequences for the life of the embryo-fetus, and also for the mother.
If the ILE is something worth promoting, as seems to be deduced from some statements heard these days, then go ahead, let’s see if there are more this year than last. But if what we know is that it really is a drama, we will have to consider what we do to reduce the number of dramas. Thus, and in a similar way to the great successes in other scenarios such as deaths from traffic accidents or tobacco use, it seems appropriate that, together with social, work or , economical, improvements in the information provided (also with images that show the reality that the embryo has a heartbeat).
And in any case, what cannot be done is to willingly confuse the general public by warning about the potential damage that a Doppler ultrasound can cause to an embryo when in reality it is in imminent risk of anihilation.
Dr. Jose Ignacio Sanchez Mendez. Gynecologist.
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