The Faroe Islands are moving to end their ban on abortion

 Some controversies are familiar all over the world.

The NYT has the story:

The Faroe Islands Are Changing Some of Europe’s Strictest Abortion Rules
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

"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.

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"The Faroes have had a near-total abortion ban, one of Europe’s most restrictive, under a law that dates back to 1956. Like Ms. Jacobsen, some women lied to their doctors to get around the restrictions and end their pregnancies, doctors, lawmakers and advocates on both sides of the issue have said. 

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"But late last year, the Parliament in the archipelago of 55,000 people ratified a law that allows women to end a pregnancy within its first 12 weeks, a major shift in a place that has long been more religious and socially conservative than its Nordic peers. The law is set to take effect in July.

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"But a parliamentary election is set for late March and polls suggest that power could pass to a conservative coalition that may try to block implementation of the law or change it."