{"id":44293,"date":"2022-01-29T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2022\/01\/29\/censored-campaign-promoting-prayer-in-front-of-abortion-clinics-sparks-controversy\/"},"modified":"2022-01-29T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T14:00:00","slug":"censored-campaign-promoting-prayer-in-front-of-abortion-clinics-sparks-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2022\/01\/29\/censored-campaign-promoting-prayer-in-front-of-abortion-clinics-sparks-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Censored campaign promoting prayer in front of abortion clinics sparks controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city councils of at least three cities in Spain have stopped a pro-life campaign launched by the Catholic Association of Propogandists.<\/p>\n<p>These municipalities said that their publicity material, which included the slogan \u201cPraying before an abortion clinic is great,\u201d pressured women going to clinics.<\/p>\n<p>The censorship has come as a shock to experts working in information law, such as Professor Leopoldo Abad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEOPOLDO ABAD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Professor of Constitutional Law, CEU University (Spain)<br \/>\n<em>'What they are accusing the advertisement of is about what is behind the ban, which is an ideology, in this case a contrary ideology. What I believe this is about is leaving behind free discussion, and I am in favor of free discussion, one of the keys of democratic systems is that all parties can express themselves, as long as they do not offend, which I think this campaign was in no way offensive.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The initiative shined light on the more than 99,000 abortions performed each year in Spain, as well as a new law that aims to prevent demonstrations in front of clinics. Professor Leopoldo Abad considers it an attack on freedom of expression.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEOPOLDO ABAD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Professor of Constitutional Law, CEU University (Spain)<br \/>\n<em>'If I pray in front of an abortion clinic, really what I am doing is a peaceful manifestation\u2014and let's not forget, \u201cpeaceful\u201d\u2014of my ideology. That is something that any self-respecting democracy must respect. If someone feels offended by that, it implies intolerance towards different ideas, which is what is behind all this.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Association of Propagandists is placing this initiative in another campaign, titled 'Canceled,' in which they give a voice to positions silenced by political correctness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>AO<\/p>\n<p>TR: JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 29, 2022. The Catholic Association of Propagandists in Spain is denouncing \"cancel culture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/I3mHjG0-jJM","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcampanacontraelabortoeng.mp4","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bcampanacontraelabortoint.mp4","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}