Spain Steps Into Battle With Itself on Abortion:
Gemma Botifoll, who decided to terminate her pregnancy after 34 weeks when she discovered her baby had a severe congenital disorder, said she was turned away from clinics in Barcelona, Madrid and Seville. Ms. Botifoll had to drive hundreds of miles to Reims, France, where she had an abortion in a public hospital. The Spanish health system paid for it.
“The Spanish doctors told me my son would not live for a year, that he would be blind, that his body would not grow, that he would be mentally disabled,” she said in a telephone interview. “But they said they could do nothing to help me.”
