Backsliding on abortion | Bianca’s story | Religion and medicine in Romania | Ultraconservatives and Austrian democracy | Croatian hospitals | Waiting periods in Germany | Criminalisation persists | Helena Dalli on equal protection | Macron and the ECFR
31 July 2022
Europeans howl in outrage about U.S. backsliding on abortion rights but they don't exactly have their own house in order. Take the case of Bianca. She's a Romanian.
She was studying medicine in Germany. And she discovered she was pregnant in Korea. Bianca eventually made her way home to Romania to terminate the pregnancy. But the doctor at her regional hospital was obstructive and barely paid attention to the medical code. Bianca was, to all intents and purposes, left to fend for herself.