Overview

• The City Council had approved a Vox motion with PP votes to require municipal centers and websites to provide mandatory, visible information about a supposed post‑abortion syndrome.
• Mayor José Luis Martínez‑Almeida now says the syndrome is not a recognized scientific category and that women will not be forced to receive information, which will be drafted by City professionals rather than Vox.
• Municipal staff across Madrid Salud, Equality spaces, CIAM and Samur Social say they will refuse to deliver such messages, as unions and the Madrid Social Work Association denounce the obligation.
• PSOE and Más Madrid are preparing court challenges, citing Spain’s 2023 sexual and reproductive health law that limits abortion‑related information to cases where women request it, while municipal legal services review feasibility.
• The PP’s national leadership publicly backed the vote, the Spanish bishops asserted the syndrome exists, and mental‑health and family‑planning bodies note it is absent from DSM‑5 and ICD‑11.