Spanish Government Set to Abandon Plan to Limit Abortion Access
The Spanish government is poised to abandon its plans to drastically limit access to abortion in the country, according to the newspaper El Mundo.
The conservative People’s party introduced legislation in December that would make abortion illegal except in the case of rape or when there is a risk to the physical and mental health of the mother. The legislation sought to enact some of the toughest abortion laws in Europe, requiring women wanting an abortion to have two doctors verify that these conditions had been met.
The justice minister, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, said the changes would be approved before the end of September. But sources from the party told El Mundo on Saturday that the law would never make it to parliament. One told the Spanish daily: “There is no consensus on the project.”
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