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Valencia (Agenzia Fides) - Over 300 students from all over Spain will gather in Valencia, for a 3 day National Pro-Life Youth Congress to discuss discusses pro-life policies, bio-ethics, abortion and assistance for women. The Congress called by the Pro-Life Association Pro vita, will be held at the campus of the San Vicente Mártir Catholic University in Valencia, UCV.
Conferences will focus on: “Abortion attacks young people ”, "The history of Pro vita Pro-Life Youth in Spain"; "Bio-ethics, bio-politics and pro-life activists", "The power of young people to defend life " "Experience of street action"; "Defence of Life in Europe"; "Defence of life today in the USA"; "Politics and defence of life: towards new solutions"; "Policies pro Life "; "authentic safe sex "; "Contraception and human life”.
Participants will include delegates and presidents of various pro-life associations anduniversity professors from Madrid's Autonomous University, from the UCV, from Cardinal Herrera University CEU, Spanish University Centres and the University of Valparaíso, in Indiana USA.
The aim of the Congress is to unite young Spaniards in the defence of the most basic of human rights, the right to life. The Congress intends to form an national federation of pro-life young people to undertake common activities open to all youth associations and those in contact with volunteers, cooperators, parishes and formation centres.
Juan Rivera aged 16, a member of the Congress organising committee, said the idea of the congress stems from the conviction, that "the first change must be to guarantee everyone the right to life. We bet on real, positive change, committed to pro life". With regard the situation of abortion in Spain, Rivera says that "despite what the law says, abortion in Spain is freely practised and almost for nothing. Abortion is the principal cause of death in Spain with 100,000 victims every year ". (RG) (Agenzia Fides 12/10/2007; righe 25, parole 341)
