Mark Early reports:
This past Saturday, a demonstration in Madrid drew an estimated one and a half million protesters. That’s between 3 and 4 percent of Spain’s entire population, the equivalent of 9 to 12 million Americans gathering in Washington.
What government policy were they demonstrating against? Sending troops to Afghanistan? Was it Spain’s nearly 20
percent unemployment rate?
None of those—they were protesting a proposal to liberalize Spain’s abortion laws. They were there to tell the government, their fellow Spaniards, and the rest of the world that “every life matters.” [more...] Photos here.