Overview
- Isabel Díaz Ayuso refused to create the legally required registry of conscientious objectors and told women to go elsewhere to abort, a stance her government reaffirmed despite national pushback.
- The abortion law reformed in 2023 obliges regions to maintain the registry, a protocol the Interterritorial Health Council approved in 2024, and the prime minister has formally given Madrid three months to comply.
- First Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz said she is studying legal actions against Ayuso for contempt and disobedience over the refusal to implement the registry.
- Health Minister Mónica García condemned Ayuso’s remarks and indicated the government will take necessary measures, including a possible referral to the Constitutional Court, to guarantee the law is applied.
- PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo reiterated support for ensuring abortions in line with the law as Madrid’s spokesman called the registry an absurd, stigmatizing list and denied party rifts, even after Ayuso overruled her health chief’s earlier signal of compliance.