The Women’s Institute filed a lawsuit in court, several companies for advertising on websites and social networks related to subdivided pregnancy services, a practice that is prohibited in Spain in the light of the 2006 Law on Human Reproduction methods.
The lawsuit was based on a legal report, which on January last year raised the agency in accordance with the Ministry of Equality to the Bar, in which it condemned the actions of eight Spanish agencies in advertising of this activity. The law on guaranteeing sexual and reproductive rights is prohibited in 2023 advertising of this type of company that contribute to services that are illegal in our country and which are offered in other countries.
Earlier, the Women’s Institute considered the requirement for companies calling for to stop this advertisement and warning that in case of this, the court path will not be fulfilled. The demanded companies did not answer. This is the first time that the judicial procedure in Spain begins against advertising of a suicide pregnancy.
“With this requirement, the Women’s Institute responds to the requests of citizens in accordance with current legislation and stop promoting prohibited practice in our country and whose advertising is illegal in Spain,” the statement said.
“They cover the violence that suggests”
The legal report that the agency sent to state protection was prepared after a total of 334 complaints in the observatory of the image of women at the publication on websites and social networks received. Not only the promotion of this activity is illegal in Spain, but also the reform of the Abortion Law called on to legitimize the state administrations “initiate judicial actions aimed at announcing the illegality and termination of advertising, which contributes to commercial practice for pregnancy for replacement”.
The report included an analysis of publications made by eight registered office in Spain, which tells about “various communicative resources that these enterprises use to attract potential customers from interviews in blogs that this practice implies for the health of women before the idealization of the so -called“ pregnant mothers, ”the Ministry of Council said.
“These organizations resort to ordinary marketing and advertising strategies to promote their services, with clearly commercial language and with emotional and technical scientific arguments aimed at creating confidence and sympathy,” the Institute of Women on Monday explains.
In addition to the condemnation of several companies, this institution in accordance with the Ministry of Equality was considered by the General Administration of consumption to analyze cases of other organizations, if they are subject to authorization.
