The Siege of Life: Legal Violence and the Collapse of Human Dignity

 José Manuel Fernández Outeiral

Author's Note (June 2025):
The recent approval by the British Parliament of a law even more permissive than Spain's regarding abortion has brought to light, once again, the disturbing global trend of institutionalizing violence against the most defenseless. In the name of freedom, we are legalizing the systematic elimination of human beings in their earliest stages of life. This article, originally written in Spanish, has gained renewed urgency. It is not merely a reflection; it is a spiritual, ethical, and philosophical denunciation.

Abortion and War: Two Faces of the Same Barbarism

The world has become accustomed to death. Wars no longer shock us. Abortion has become a right. In both cases, life is sacrificed under the weight of arguments that conceal something darker: indifference, utilitarianism, and collective blindness.

We are told that abortion is a private matter, a woman’s right. We are told that war is a geopolitical necessity. But what if both are symptoms of the same moral collapse?

Abortion kills the weakest. War kills the youngest. Both are orchestrated and legitimized by systems that exalt freedom while trampling on the essence of life.

In 2023 alone, there were over 73 million abortions worldwide — more than all the war deaths of the entire 20th century. And yet, the majority of these were not due to rape, danger to the mother, or fetal malformation. They were due to social, economic, or personal reasons. In other words: convenience.

When society accepts that human life can be interrupted before birth, it opens the door to other forms of extermination. It is not surprising, then, that the same cultures that defend the right to abort also support wars under the guise of humanitarianism or economic interest.

The issue is not legal or political. It is spiritual. The soul of humanity is sick. It confuses progress with destruction. It calls freedom what is in fact a brutal form of domination over the most fragile.

Abortion is not only a feminine issue. It is also a masculine one. A man who abandons the woman he impregnated, who refuses to assume his responsibility, is complicit in the death of that child. The legalization of abortion has also legalized irresponsibility.

And when irresponsibility becomes law, life becomes disposable. We see it in embryos and in bombed children. We see it in pregnant women who are pressured to abort, not for freedom, but for fear and social isolation. We see it in politicians who sign decrees with a pen dipped in blood.

Where is human dignity? Where is the sacredness of life? Has science, with all its data and algorithms, replaced the wisdom of the heart?

They say that to speak against abortion is to return to the past. But perhaps the past — that past in which life was revered, children were welcomed, and death was mourned — was more human than this sterile, technological, and anesthetized present.

No war is justified if it annihilates the innocent. No abortion is dignified if it suppresses a heartbeat. Every argument collapses when faced with the silence of a truncated life.

This is not a matter of religion, but of truth. Not of ideology, but of humanity. A civilization that devours its own offspring will not survive long. The earth does not tolerate spilled blood forever. There are invisible laws, deeper than human laws, that govern life and its destiny.

Let us not fool ourselves: the enemy is not in a distant country or a backward belief. The enemy is within. It is the system that turns murder into law. It is the society that has forgotten how to love.

To defend life is not fanaticism. It is the last act of resistance in a world that slides, blind and smiling, toward its own abyss.

A civilization that denies the soul cannot truly defend life.

Materialist ideologies—whether cloaked in communism or disguised as women's 'freedom'—have justified the death of tens of millions each year.
This is not ideology. These are documented facts.
When society forgets its spiritual nature, it builds laws on ignorance, not on wisdom.

If you’ve read this far, you already feel it. The true war is not outside. It is within each of us.

And the first victory is to say: enough.

 

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