Spanish bishop wins case after being prosecuted for comparing abortion to the Holocaust

A Spanish court has dismissed a criminal case against the bishop of the city of Alcalá de Henares, Juan Antonio Reig Pla, who was accused by pro-abortion feminists of inciting “hatred” against them for comparing their activism to the Nazi holocaust.

Judge Olga Iglesias of the 2nd Court of Instruction in the district of Madrid ruled that Reig Pla’s statements fell under his constitutional right of the free exercise of religion.

“It is evident that the bishop who is the subject of the complaint, in conformity with the principles of the social doctrine of the Catholic Church and in the exercise of the liberty of expression and religion, understands, and thus states, that the right demanded by some women is equivalent to the direct and deliberate killing of unborn children,” wrote Iglesias in her ruling in mid-January.

Reig Pla provoked outrage among feminists, who led a “Freedom Train” protest in favor of the right to kill the unborn in 2014, when he wrote an open letter comparing their “train” to the trains that carried Jews and others to their deaths at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi Germany. The open letter is titled “Calling things by their names: a true challenge for Catholics.”

The bishop called the “Freedom Train” “the train of death, of the most infamous holocaust: the direct and deliberate killing of innocent unborn children” and compared it to “the trains of Auschwitz that led to a death camp.”

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