Abortion Ship Protest

A shipborne Dutch abortion clinic yesterday sailed into a Baltic port in Roman Catholic Poland, provoking protests from anti-abortion activists. The Langenort, a tugboat with a surgery on its deck, was due to arrive on Friday but was turned back due to bad weather. Its crew of...
A shipborne Dutch abortion clinic yesterday sailed into a Baltic port in Roman Catholic Poland, provoking protests from anti-abortion activists.

The Langenort, a tugboat with a surgery on its deck, was due to arrive on Friday but was turned back due to bad weather. Its crew of pro-abortion campaigners questioned whether this was the real reason. Polish law permits abortions only if a woman's health is threatened, if the foetus is damaged, or after rape.


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Published: 6/22/2003
 
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