Mañueco maintains the measures for pregnant women despite the fact that Feijóo affirms that "Castilla y León is not going to modify the protocol"

The measures for pregnant women proposed by the Junta de Castilla y León continue to generate confusion even within the PP.

The president of the main opposition party, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, assured this Tuesday morning that "the Government of Castilla y León is not going to modify the care protocol for pregnant women", something that contrasts with the plans of the Junta, directed by the PP in coalition with Vox and led by the popular Alfonso Fernández Mañueco.

The forecast is that the new measures that will be made available to doctors —preferential psychological care, listening to the fetal heartbeat or a 4D ultrasound of the fetus— come into force without it being “obligatory”, as Vox insisted, that the doctor give them to them. offer women.

The protocol for voluntary interruptions of pregnancy, on the other hand,

It will remain as it is, according to spokespersons for the Castilla y León Health area.

These sources do not clarify how or when the measures will come into operation.

The extreme right of Vox has warned the PP that these measures must continue, despite the fact that the community managements have not yet received them, despite the fact that the Minister of Health, Alejandro Vázquez, said on Friday in EL PAÍS that they would be issued this Monday.

The general secretary of Vox, Ignacio Garriga, warned of this on Tuesday morning: “We will demand that the agreement be fulfilled.

We will not take a step back with what was agreed”.

The high office of the formation has trusted "that the PP is people of its word" and has alluded that "they have signed a protocol and will carry it out".

Vox's spokesman in Congress, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, has rejected that these differences necessarily translate into a rupture of the coalition in the community: "To review is not to break,

but of course we will have to be stricter because it rains, it pours with the PP”.

Vox has released a press release on the afternoon of this Tuesday insisting that it "trusts that the Government of Castilla y León complies and implements the agreed protocol."

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This situation contrasts with the speech that Mañueco issued on Monday, without admitting questions, just like this Tuesday in Salamanca, where he met with the Minister of Health, Carolina Darias, who once again insisted that he needs "reliable information" about the intentions of the regional command.

"There will be no modification in the protocol for attention to the interruption of pregnancy, which is adjusted to current national legislation and clinical criteria," says Mañueco in the letter that he has sent to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez,

The regional president of the PP highlighted in his response letter to the Government that "in no case does the Junta de Castilla y León update the protocol for women who undergo an interruption of pregnancy", vindicated the freedom of women and stressed that nothing could be forced, as his partner claimed, to the doctors.

"It will be them, as up to now, who can freely request the resources that they have at their disposal and, of course, after this concern voluntarily formulated by any pregnant woman, the physicians will know and will be able to facilitate according to their clinical judgment", detailed Mañueco, who It stressed that "altering the order of these two factors can lead to coercion against women and the Board will neither promote nor protect them."

incompetence requirement

The Government alleges in the requirement of incompetence against the Junta de Castilla y León to "cease immediately" in the application of the anti-abortion measures announced by the Executive of Alfonso Fernández Mañueco would be, if finally carried out, "discriminatory" for the different treatment of pregnant women in this community compared to those in the rest of the country and would imply a "violation of state competence for the regulation of the basic conditions that guarantee the equality of all Spaniards in the exercise of their rights".

“The dignity of women, elevated to a fundamental legal value, and the rights that are inherent to them, would be seriously affected in the event that the measures announced by the Junta de Castilla y León are applied,

The Government refers up to six times, to justify its action, to "the measures announced" by the regional Executive since January 12.

That day was decisive in the reaction of La Moncloa, which since then has repeatedly demanded the protocol from the Government of Mañueco without obtaining an official, written and detailed response.

"It is not admissible that in an official press conference the approval of a protocol that is not made available to citizens is publicized, and even more so, by virtue of the demands of institutional loyalty," the request emphasizes.

Board Announcement

The press release issued by the Board last Thursday cited "the preparation and implementation of a fetal heartbeat protocol within the care scheduled in the first trimester."

Likewise, “access to 4D ultrasound for pregnant women during the monitoring of their pregnancy” was announced, “thus being able to show an image of the baby in a real-time video with its facial features and gestures, hands, fingers, feet and other of the body, all of them perfectly identifiable and recognizable for the mother and the family, thus favoring their emotional involvement”.

Vice President Gallardo, from Vox, defined the measures as "pro-life" and stressed that they would be voluntary for women, but mandatory for health professionals.

The requirement to the Board for actions that may violate the organic law on sexual and reproductive health and voluntary termination of pregnancy emphasizes that the information to be provided to women who decide to terminate their pregnancy "must be impartial and based on scientific evidence , circumstances that are not met in the measures announced by the Junta de Castilla y León”.

The Spanish Society of Gynecology indicates in relation to the fetal heartbeat that the clinical guidelines establish that "in the embryonic phase [up to week sixteen days] it is recommended that the ultrasound evaluation of the heartbeat be preferably visual" and that Doppler ultrasounds " They should not be used routinely.

On Friday, at the request of the Ministry of Health for the "urgent referral of the protocol, resolution or agreed instrument to carry out the announced measures", the Ministry of Health of Castilla y León "limited itself to indicating that the measures to be implemented They consisted of technological improvements and the possibility of allowing the woman to listen to the fetal heartbeat in ultrasound studies, always respecting her will, but without offering any additional information or clarification that would answer the questions raised, ”reports the requirement.

The nine-page document recalls that the Minister of Health, Alejandro Vázquez (PP), later stated that the Board "will urge" the toilets through "instructions" to offer pregnant women, including those who want to voluntarily interrupt her pregnancy,

the possibility of listening to the fetal heartbeat and accessing a 4D ultrasound.

"All the protocols are mandatory for health professionals, and this one too," Gallardo said on January 16, the day that the measures were originally going to come into force.

Mañueco affirmed hours later that this would not be the case, but as the Government points out, it continued "without clarifying whether the announced measures have been applied or will be applied in the future or, if applicable, what content and specific development these measures will have."

The conclusion of the Executive is that the purpose of the Board is to proceed "imminently, as of January 16", to the application of measures consisting "in imposing, or at least 'urging' or 'instructing' —without these two expressions have been rectified—, to health professionals the application of a specific protocol”, including, in the terms announced, pregnant women who intend to abort.

The Executive emphasizes that this new requirement, after the one last Sunday whose course would be through contentious-administrative channels, would not have been necessary if the Board had clarified its intentions in writing as requested.

“We cannot wait in the face of all this confusion and aberration.

The government here is not participating in the partisan political debate,

the Government is protecting the rights of women and giving health professionals peace of mind in their demand for legal certainty”, said the Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, after the Council of Ministers this Tuesday.

The requirement of incompetence, provided for in article 63 of the Organic Law of the Constitutional Court, aims to "ensure the division of powers between administrations provided for in the Constitution."

If Castilla y León does not respond within a month, La Moncloa will have another month (from the notification of the rejection of the request) to raise the conflict before the Constitutional Court.

The requirement of incompetence, provided for in article 63 of the Organic Law of the Constitutional Court, aims to "ensure the division of powers between administrations provided for in the Constitution."

If Castilla y León does not respond within a month, La Moncloa will have another month (from the notification of the rejection of the request) to raise the conflict before the Constitutional Court.

The requirement of incompetence, provided for in article 63 of the Organic Law of the Constitutional Court, aims to "ensure the division of powers between administrations provided for in the Constitution."

If Castilla y León does not respond within a month, La Moncloa will have another month (from the notification of the rejection of the request) to raise the conflict before the Constitutional Court.

The spokesperson assured that it is possible to undertake an action such as that of the requirement without a clear administrative fact, caused by the lack of specificity of the Board: "Of course, the formula of the way of the fact recognizes it and we are supported by the jurisprudence of the Court Constitutional".

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