A dispute over the listing of doctors who refuse to terminate pregnancies has thrust abortion back into the Spanish political arena, 40 years after it was decriminalised.
The left-wing coalition government of Pedro Sánchez has called for regional governments to comply with a law obliging them to draw up registers of doctors who, for reasons of conscience, prefer not to perform abortions.
The lists are not made public and allow personnel to be redistributed. The government argues that they facilitate access to clinics where abortions are available.
In a letter to the regional governments which had not
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