Catholic Web movement founder says he'll take abortionists to court

Published: 2004-10-22

BARCELONA, Spain (CNS) -- For several years, Josep Miro Ardevol has been saying there is an illegal abortion racket in Barcelona. Now, the founder of a Catholic Web-based movement, E-cristians.net, says he will use information from a British newspaper investigation to try to take the abortionists to court. On Oct. 10, the London newspaper The Sunday Telegraph reported that a Barcelona clinic, Ginemedex, was performing abortions up to 30 weeks into a pregnancy. It reported that a pregnancy advisory agency in Britain was telling women to contact Ginemedex if they wanted a late-term abortion. The legal limit for a woman to choose abortion in Britain is 24 weeks. When a reporter who was 26 weeks pregnant went to Ginemedex, doctors at the Spanish clinic said they could abort her perfectly healthy fetus. The Sunday Telegraph also claimed that, while being secretly recorded, the doctors explained how they could "falsify documents" to justify the termination on the grounds of a "gynecological emergency" that threatened the mother's health.

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