Malta moves to ease EU's last total ban on abortion [View all]
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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