Reuters, June 25, 2021
By Marco Trujillo
GIBRALTAR (Reuters) -Gibraltar voted to ease a strict abortion law, officials said on Friday, after a referendum which some locals said marked a long overdue advancement of women's rights in the tiny British territory.
Around 62% of voters who took part backed the change in Thursday's ballot, where turnout was about 52% of the 23,000 odd eligible voters, Gibraltar's parliament said.
June 24, 2021
Gibraltar voted to relax its tough anti-abortion laws in a referendum on Thursday.
The tiny British territory has some of the harshest abortion laws in Europe - the penalty for breaching the law is life imprisonment.
Voters backed relaxing the rules to allow abortions where a woman's mental or physical health is at risk or when foetuses have fatal physical defects.
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Posted Jun 24, 2021
GIBRALTAR (AP) — Gibraltar was holding a referendum Thursday on whether to introduce exceptions to the British territory’s ban on abortion.
Abortion is illegal in Gibraltar, unless it is needed to save the mother’s life. Abortion is legally classified as “child destruction” and is punishable by up to life in prison. It is one of Europe’s most restrictive laws on pregnancy termination.
Continued: https://www.citynews1130.com/2021/06/24/gibraltar-votes-on-whether-to-ease-its-strict-abortion-law/
Gibraltar abortion vote postponed due to coronavirus
Poll earlier this month shows 70% of voters intend to support changes to liberalize abortion laws in referendum
Karim El-Bar
13.03.2020
Gibraltar announced on Thursday that it postponed a referendum on liberalizing its abortion laws due to the global coronavirus outbreak.
In a statement, the government said that though the "nature of the voting process is safe," it was concerned that "the advice to elderly people to stay home and avoid public places" could lead to the result of the vote to be "called into question" due to possible allegations that it skewed the results of the vote.
Continued: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/gibraltar-abortion-vote-postponed-due-to-coronavirus/1764365
This British overseas territory has some of the strictest abortion laws in Europe - welcome to Gibraltar
Molly McElwee
20 August 2018
Last week, Argentina's senate blocked a bill to legalise abortion up to 14 weeks. In a year marked by progress for women's rights campaigners - including the Ireland referendum victory to repeal its outdated abortion laws - it has come as a huge setback.
Not even stories of 500,000 illegal abortions, leading to 100 unnecessary deaths every year - including one in the days since the bill was blocked - could break through the staunchly Catholic country's status quo.
The British territory with Europe's harshest abortion laws
By John Owen
9 May 2018
The tiny British territory of Gibraltar has the harshest anti-abortion laws anywhere in Europe - the penalty for breaching the law is life imprisonment. But with Brexit looming and the Irish abortion referendum just weeks away, campaigners are hoping for change.
Gibraltar's residents, who live on a two-mile strip of land at the tip of Spain, are British citizens, and many feel a deep affinity with the UK.
But in one respect they are very different.
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