Overview

• La Moncloa will bring a constitutional reform to Congress to explicitly protect access to abortion, a step the government says would leave Spain second globally after France if approved.
• Separately, the government will urgently amend Royal Decree 825/2010 to bar false or misleading claims and require abortion information to meet WHO and APA scientific standards.
• The initiative follows a Madrid City Council motion pushed by Vox and backed by the PP to promote a so‑called post‑abortion syndrome, a concept rejected by medical and psychiatric bodies.
• Madrid’s mayor later acknowledged the syndrome lacks scientific recognition and said women would not be obliged to receive such information.
• The Health Ministry is reviewing the Madrid measure’s legality and potential implications for harassment and disinformation, while PSOE Madrid readies legal action; the Constitutional Court has already affirmed abortion as an essential right.