Overview
- The deadline set by a formal government requerimiento expired Friday, and the Ayuso administration declined to establish or remit the registry.
- Health Minister Mónica García announced a contentious-administrative action to enforce compliance within the legally established window.
- Madrid’s health chief Fátima Matute argues the registry would violate fundamental rights of conscience and privacy and says only a court should determine the outcome.
- Aragón and the Balearic Islands moved to comply with the requirement, leaving Madrid as the sole public holdout.
- The registry, mandated by the 2023 abortion-law reform, is designed to prevent conscientious objection from obstructing access to lawful abortion care, a goal public-health groups say Madrid’s stance undermines.