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In Spain, Abortions Are Legal, but Many Doctors Refuse to Perform Them [1]

['Nicholas Casey']

Date: 2021-09-21

ZARAGOZA, Spain — Dr. Mercedes Sobreviela, a gynecologist in this city in northeast Spain, believes it is a woman’s choice whether she has an abortion. She says the “right decision” for a woman is “always the one she wants.”

But as a physician in Spain, Dr. Sobreviela believes she has the right to choose as well, and she has chosen not to perform abortions.

Her public hospital, University Clinic Hospital of Zaragoza, does not perform them either. In fact, no public hospital in the surrounding region of Aragón, which includes 1.3 million people, will do the procedure.

“We are doctors, our calling is as physicians, and we are here to help people live, not to decide this one lives and this one dies,” Dr. Sobreviela said.

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[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/world/europe/spain-abortion-doctors.html

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