A new law allowing abortion up to 12 weeks will be a major shift in an archipelago of 55,000 people, and there are strong feelings on both sides.

By Amelia Nierenberg and Regin Winther Poulsen
March 18, 2026

Marna Jacobsen was 17, pregnant and set on continuing her education abroad, a rare chance for the daughter of a poor fisherman from the Faroe Islands.

The Faroes, a self-governing part of the Kingdom of Denmark, in the North Atlantic hundreds of miles from Copenhagen, allowed abortion only in rare cases. So Ms. Jacobsen suggested to two doctors that she would have a nervous breakdown if she had a baby. It was her only chance to finish her studies, she said.

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(https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/world/europe/faroe-islands-abortion-europe.html)