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Proposal to decriminalize abortion prompts debate in Malta
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Proposal to decriminalize abortion prompts debate in Malta
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No person has faced criminal charges for getting an abortion or providing the means to terminate a pregnancy in Malta in the last five years.
Between 2015 and 2020, the police investigated three people for alleged abortions, none of whom were arraigned, they told Times of Malta.
Since the year 2000 only three women have been convicted of having an abortion.
In 2006, a 23-year-old Maltese woman was sentenced to three years’ probation.
The other two sentences happened in 2014, where one 30-year-old woman received two years’ jail, suspended for four years and another 28-year-old woman was sentenced to 18 months, suspended for two years.
It is estimated that some 400 Maltese women travel overseas to have an abortion and another 200 purchase abortion pills online every year.
Where parties stand on abortion – Arnold Cassola
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When independent MP Marlene Farrugia presented a private member’s bill proposing the decriminalisation of abortion in Malta, temperatures soared, as vested parties on both sides made the case on why abortion should or should not be legislated.
However, there is a key difference between decriminalisation and legalisation.
Abortion in Malta is legislated by articles 241(1) and 242, which both prohibit anyone from getting an abortion and imposes a penalty on the person who terminates a pregnancy and any person who assists them.
A guilty sentence carries a prison term of anything between 18 months up to three years.
Farrugia’s bill is proposing that these articles be struck off and instead be replaced by a provision imposing 10 years in prison for anyone who carries out a forced or non-consensual abortion.