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Thu Nov 17, 2022, 12:57 AM Nov 2022

Malta moves to ease EU's last total ban on abortion

Source: BBC

Malta moves to ease EU's last total ban on abortion

16 November 2022

By Jessica Parker & Paul Kirby
In Brussels and London

Malta's government is to propose a change in the law to allow doctors to terminate a pregnancy if a mother's life or health is at risk.

The small Mediterranean state has the only total abortion ban in the EU.

Ministers promised to review the law when a US tourist was denied an abortion after she began to miscarry.

Andrea Prudente, who was 16 weeks pregnant, was told doctors could do nothing while the baby's heart was still beating.

Facing a potentially deadly infection she asked for an abortion and after days of waiting she was eventually allowed to fly to Spain.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63650476

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Malta moves to ease EU's last total ban on abortion (Original Post) Eugene Nov 2022 OP
A leader also acknowledged that women in that country wete having abortions at will via pill Demovictory9 Nov 2022 #1
Jesus don't like none of that abortion shit that's been goin' on. 3Hotdogs Nov 2022 #2
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