Rome: The woman was still woozy from anaesthesia when Italian police interrogated her shortly after she had had an abortion. Then they confiscated the foetus. In Spain, police have swept into clinics, hauled away cartons of medical records and questioned dozens of women who had terminated their pregnancies, sometimes showing up at their homes, to their great morification. In Italy and Spain, two of Europe's most Catholic countries, opponents of abortion are finding new ways to challenge laws and use the issue to influence national elections, a generation after most citizens thought...
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