The story is that King Juan Carlos 'sought the authorisation' of the Roman Pontiff...

Before he signed the law that inaugurated the current abortion regime in Spain; thus Francisco José Fernández de la Cigoña. Don Francisco quite wickedly has placed a photograph of his present Catholic Majesty making an address in the presence of el Caudillo presumably to make a point about the moral courage of the monarch; and he notes that the noble fellow who made the claim, Ildefonso 'Alfonso' Ussía, ought not to be entirely relied upon-- he has been a journalist for far too many years, perhaps.  My own suspicion is that, were the Sovereign Pontiff in fact consulted, his Holiness would have suggested that the supplicant already knew in his heart what he should do (Baudouin, Roi des Belges, requiescat in pace...), and that he would compel him no more than Our Blessed Lord before Pontius Pilate compelled him. But it is all in any event yet another scandal; and am not going even to touch the rest of the esteemed Spaniard's post which is mainly about decline and corruption all around him and the scurrilous character of certain high ecclesiastics in Spain and elsewhere.