US EditionNorway proposes relaxing its abortion law to allow the procedure until 18th week of pregnancy
- Norway's government plans to relax abortion laws, allowing the procedure until the 18th week of pregnancy for the first time in nearly 50 years.
- Current laws permit abortions only up to 12 weeks, but many requests after that are granted, according to Norwegian Health Minister Jan Christian Vestre.
- The proposed law requires 85 votes in the 169-member Stortinget, with about 80 lawmakers currently supporting it.
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The Norwegian government announced today that it wants to amend the law on abortion, for the first time in half a century, so that a woman would be allowed to terminate her pregnancy up to the 18th week.
Although there is no consensus on the issue within Norway's centre-left government, it is pushing for abortions to be permitted up to the 18th week of pregnancy. The bill's chances of getting through parliament are not bad.
Norway proposes relaxing its abortion law to allow the procedure until 18th week of pregnancy
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s government says it wants to relax restrictions on abortion for the first time in nearly half a century to make it legal for women to terminate pregnancies up to the 18th week of gestation. Norway’s laws currently allow legal abortions up to 12 weeks, but many pregnant women ask for
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Norway proposes relaxing its abortion law to allow the procedure until 18th week of pregnancy
Norway’s government says it wants to relax restrictions on abortion for the first time in nearly half a century to make it legal for women to terminate pregnancies up to the 18th week of gestation.
Norway's centre-left government wants to allow abortions up to the 18th week of pregnancy. In doing so, it wants to "secure the pregnant woman's right to self-determination and protect her rights," the government of Social Democratic Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Störe said on Friday. Until now, the legal period within which abortions are possible in Norway - as in Germany - is twelve weeks. However, the planned extension of the period has led to ma…
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