There are reproaches that, rather than outraging, provoke disbelief. For HazteOír—and its satellite entourage—to accuse VOX of «doing nothing» against abortion after reading the signed agreements and the measures achieved is, simply put, pissing in the wind, if you get the gist.
For forty years, the so-called «Catholic vote» has unflinchingly propped up the PP in Spain, a pro-abortion party, promoter of gender ideology, driver of same-sex marriage, and colonizer of classrooms. Forty years voting for the PP, swallowing everything, justifying everything, blessing everything, in a bishopric-PP marriage that would have sickened Barbie. No truck campaigns, no hysterical reproaches, no demands for purity. Just slobbering and awards. And the combative Catholics who promoted political alternatives had to endure the contempt and the cordon sanitaire from the prudes who came out of 8 a.m. Mass with their hairdo intact.
And now, when a party appears that—with all the limitations of the context—explicitly defends life, family, and natality, presents pro-life programs, and secures real commitments where it governs or influences governments, it turns out that’s not enough. Instead of applauding with eight hands, they nitpick. Lest someone confuse real politics with Instagram epic.
The reproach, moreover, is deeply dishonest. VOX is demanded to «do everything possible,» but no one specifies what that means, nor assumes the consequences of that «everything.» Because abortions happen every day. We know where they take place. If the criterion were purely physical, immediate, without calculation, anyone could try to stop them today. And no one does. Not for lack of courage, but because that way not a single life is saved.
It’s not fear. It’s common sense.
Impulsive, maximalist action without strategy doesn’t reduce abortions; it shields them. It reinforces the pro-abortion consensus, legitimizes legal repression, and hands the left the moral framework it needs. That’s why no one serious acts that way. That’s why HazteOír doesn’t do it either, even though it pretends to demand it from others from the stands.
Here’s the core of the hypocrisy:
they don’t do «everything physically possible» either, because they know it doesn’t work. But they demand from others gestures that don’t work either, only with added political cost. It’s the perfect reproach: they risk nothing, achieve nothing, but keep their window-dressing moral superiority intact.
Meanwhile, facts are stubborn. VOX has secured in various regional agreements commitments in favor of the family, natality, protection of motherhood, support for pregnant women, and the fight against the culture of death. Partial measures, yes. Gradual, too. But real. Written. Signed. Executable.
Result? Furious attacks. Not just from the left and the media, but even—as seen in Castilla y León—from ecclesiastical circles, bishops included, more concerned with not disturbing the progressive consensus than with defending an elementary truth. That precedent should suffice to understand why the path can’t be one of immediate maximalism. If even COPE, the radio station for which all the bishops comprising the Plenary Assembly of the CEE are responsible, says that defending life is something stale.
The defense of life isn’t done with shouts or suicidal challenges. It’s done by preparing the ground, changing mental frameworks, introducing uncomfortable truths, advancing when possible, and resisting wear and tear. It’s the path followed by all the countries where there have been lasting advances. There’s no other. And it’s what Vox is learning from and drawing inspiration from.
That’s why it’s obscene that those who didn’t lift a finger for decades now set themselves up as inquisitors. That those who applauded the PP’s pro-abortion consensus for forty years now tear their garments because VOX doesn’t perform legislative magic in a hostile context, and limits itself to doing everything it reasonably can.
If this is about saving lives, it would be advisable to start by stopping the sabotage of those who are paving the way, even if not at the pace demanded by the professional purists of Hazteoir, slaves to dishonest fundraising.