Pro-choice campaigners in Malta create lockboxes containing abortion pills

Critics hit out at ‘dire’ situation in the country which has the strictest laws around abortion in western Europe Rights campaigners have affixed lockboxes containing abortion pills to sites across Malta, in a campaign designed to highlight the country’s near-total ban on abortion. The 15 black boxes aim to provide practical help to women grappling with the EU’s strictest abortion laws; anyone who is less than nine weeks pregnant and in need of an abortion is invited to send an email to obtai...

By Ashifa Kassam European community affairs correspondent