Copenhagen, Dec 4, 2025 (AFP) - Denmark's Faroe Islands liberalise abortion laws, among Europe's strictest

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2025-12-04

The parliament of the Faroe Islands, a self-governing territory of Denmark, voted Thursday to legalise abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, liberalising some of Europe's strictest laws on the procedure. The reform, which passed by a vote of 17 to 16, ends regulations restricting abortion to extreme cases such as danger to a woman's life in the north Atlantic archipelago of some 56,000 people. It ends a legal imbalance where Faroese women......

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