A protester wearing a Carlist red beret holds a banner during a demonstration protesting against abortion in Madrid, Spain on March 27. Photo: AFP
A protester wearing a Carlist red beret holds a banner during a demonstration protesting against abortion in Madrid, Spain on March 27. Photo: AFP
Spain

Thousands of protesters in Madrid march against new abortion law

  • Spain’s leftist government is preparing a law to guarantee access to the procedure at public hospitals
  • Spain decriminalised abortion in 1985, but many doctors in the predominantly Catholic refuse to carry out the procedure

A protester wearing a Carlist red beret holds a banner during a demonstration protesting against abortion in Madrid, Spain on March 27. Photo: AFP
A protester wearing a Carlist red beret holds a banner during a demonstration protesting against abortion in Madrid, Spain on March 27. Photo: AFP
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