{"id":270249,"date":"2022-06-21T08:40:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T13:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=270249"},"modified":"2022-06-19T23:46:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T04:46:24","slug":"malta-organization-rallies-decriminalization-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/malta-organization-rallies-decriminalization-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion organization rallies for decriminalization of abortion in Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A group called the Women’s Rights Foundation has filed a judicial protest calling for the decriminalization and legalization of abortion in Malta. According to Malta Today<\/a>, the judicial protest was filed on June 15 on behalf of 188 women. The signees asked that abortion be decriminalized and the country’s blanket ban on abortion be lifted on the grounds that the country’s current abortion prohibition “is leading to women being subjected to human rights violations.”<\/p>\n

Within the protest, the signees argue that the abortion prohibition is discriminatory against women because it treats them \u201cin an unequal and disproportionate manner, more so when the constitution safeguards the principles of equality.” They also say that the abortion prohibition directly impacts their quality of life \u201cincluding the prohibition of making decisions about their health, family, future and their general well-being, and that they are being precluded from their right to bodily autonomy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAbortion care can be accessed in a safe manner by those that have the financial means to travel outside Malta to countries where it is legal, whilst those that do not have the financial means, can only access abortion care in clandestine and illegal manner, by buying the pills online and with the continuous fear that they would face criminal proceedings if caught,\u201d the judicial protest reads.<\/p>\n

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