The Maltese authorities’ decision to water down a version of a bill aimed at partially decriminalizing abortion in cases of grave risk to the life or health of pregnant people will endanger lives, Amnesty International said following the bills’ adoption by parliament. Under the new law passed today, a doctor may terminate a pregnancy if the person’s life is at immediate risk and before ‘foetal viability’. In addition doctors will be required to refer pregnant people, whose health is in grave