Malta: activists' fight to decriminalize abortion

In very Catholic Malta, abortion is still considered a crime. Madonna and Child on a Street in Valletta. RFI / Laurent Berthault

By: Cécile Debarge

Among the collateral effects of confinement and movement restrictions, the inability of many women to travel to terminate their pregnancy in a country where the law allows them.

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In Malta, for example. The closing of the borders makes abortion abroad impossible.
However, this small island in the south of the Mediterranean is the last country in the European Union to ban abortion completely, without any exception ... A subject completely absent from the political debate until a few months ago and on which activists and a handful of doctors are trying to break the taboo.

"Malta: the fight of activists to decriminalize abortion", a Large report by Cécile Debarge.

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