The crusade against women is almost as old as vermouth, but people still believed that everything was moving forward. That illusion crumbles upon hearing the “go elsewhere to have an abortion” from the president of the Community of Madrid: a lexical jewel with an imperative of courtesy used with an authoritarian tone to refer to a place other than where the person is located, with the additional purpose of appealing to article 15 of the Constitution which includes the “right to physical and moral integrity, without being subjected in any case to torture or to inhuman or degrading punishment or treatment”. According to the latest Health report, in 2024 almost 100% of abortions in Madrid were performed in private clinics. How right the philosopher Simone de Beauvoir was when she warned that a political crisis would be enough to question women’s rights, that from this Monday we will work for free until 2026 and that we live in a country in whose capital it seems necessary to go into exile to terminate a pregnancy.
Alba Lucia Hernández Leao. Madrid
rebound effect
Yes, the conviction of the State Attorney General is already known. If there had been acquittal, the right would immediately think (the declarations in the gallery are another thing) that the Supreme Court had bowed to “sanchism” but since it is condemnatory, they will use it, and in what way, against the Government. To justify it, the sentence will come out with solid legal reasons, but the sensation it gives is that of a “rebound effect” against the government closing ranks in favor of the attorney general. And the independence of the judiciary is more a fiction than a reality.
José Miguel Grandal Lopez. Cartagena
Ignorance
A quarter of young people believe an authoritarian regime is preferable in certain circumstances. Almost half don’t know how Lorca died. The first is due to ignorance, because they don’t know what it means to live in an authoritarian regime. Young people would be the ones who would lose the most, they would lose almost all the freedoms we enjoy in the current democratic regime, including freedom of expression, communication and mobility. As for the lack of knowledge of Lorca’s death, it is because the history of the Franco regime was not explained. For this reason they do not care about his death.
Antonio Nadal Peria. Zaragoza
A return that smells of business
The return to Camp Nou this Saturday, after more than two years of exile, should be a celebration. But the enthusiasm was overshadowed by the scandal of exorbitant prices, with tickets approaching 600 euros for the general public and 1,500 in the VIP areas. The club promised us a house, but gave us back an exclusive business center. The veto of the Athletics fans, justified by the works, aggravates the disappointment. If the stadium doesn’t have the conditions to host rivals, why does it have the conditions for such an abusive surcharge? Barça is using the sentiment of its members to finance a global luxury structure, forgetting that the soul of a club lies in the full stands, not in the gold-priced tickets.
Arianna Losada. Terrassa
