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The Organic Law 11/2015, to strengthen the protection of minors and women with judicially modified capacity in the voluntary interruption of their pregnancy, of 21st of September 2015, has recently come into force. It denies the capacity of women under legal age to consent by themselves the voluntary interruption of their pregnancies. In its Preamble the new law states that it was the Organic Law 2/2010 the one which for the first time allowed women under legal age to voluntary consent this kind of interventions. Is it that recent the legal recognition of the capacity to consent an abortion? The capacity of minors to consent by themselves a voluntary intervention of their pregnancies has aroused (and still arouses) a strong debate in the legal doctrine, jurisprudence and public opinion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]