Under pressure from the Catholic Church and its conservative wing, Spain's government has vowed to tighten the nation's abortion laws, angering the opposition party.

Justice Minister Alberto Alberto Ruiz Gallardon said Monday his government would "promptly" reform the abortion law passed by the previous Socialist government, adding that life is "an inalienable right".
"The risk to physical and mental health can not be considered as a pretext to not protect the life of a newborn," he added at a conference in Barcelona organised by the conservative daily newspaper La Razon.
The minister already sparked controversy last year when he said the promised reform of the country's abortion laws would make the procedure illegal in cases where the foetus is deformed.
Under a law introduced by the Socialist government in 2010 women were given the right to abortion on demand for up to 14 weeks of pregnancy.
The 2010 law also allowed women the legal right to abort up to the 22nd week of pregnancy in cases where the mother's health is at risk or the foetus shows serious deformities.
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He was speaking at a news conference held at the same time as Rajoy was meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, making him the first European leader to hold talks with the new pontiff.
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During a debate in parliament on Wednesday, Soclialist lawmaker told Gallardon that concern for the risk to a woman's health "has never been a pretext" for an abortion but was instead a sound legal reason that was backed by Spain's Constitutional Council, the nation's highest constitutional authority.
"What you and Rouco Varela don't know is what such a decision means to a woman," she added.
Socialist deputy secretary-general Elena Valenciano accused Spain's Church hierarchy of seeking to rule.
"We will not accept that Rouco Varela govern us," she said Tuesday during an interview with radio Onda Cero.
"And women, that is to say mothers, don't they have a word in this? Ministers, judges, bishops, scientists are going to decide what we should do with our motherhood. They know. We obey and shut up. Amen," she wrote on her Facebook page on Wednesday.
The secretary-general of the Socialist Party's youth wing, Nino Torres, joined in the criticism of the planned reform, saying Tuesday that it "only pleases ultraconservatives without solving the real problem of undesired conceptions."
The vast majority of Spaniards, 81 percent, are against banning abortion in cases where a foetus is malformed, according to a poll published in July 2012 in left-wing newspaper El Pais.
The proposed reform was rejected by 65 percent of those who said they voted for the Popular Party in the 2011 general election as well as by 64 percent of those who define themselves as practising Catholics.
The 2010 abortion law was one of a series of liberal socials reforms, including same-sex marriage and fast-track divorce, which angered Catholic Church authorities.