50 years after Yugoslavia protected abortion rights, that socialist legacy is threatened

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP)—With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands, and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia.

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