Abortion clinics in Spain have gone on a week-long strike in an attempt to pressure the Spanish government into changing its abortion laws:

Most abortions in Spain are carried out under a law requiring a doctor’s diagnosis that the pregnancy poses a risk to the woman’s mental health.

Spanish doctors, who started strike action on Tuesday, want the law changed in line with many other European countries, where a woman can choose to have a termination within the first three months of pregnancy.

At present, the doctor’s judgment can be called into question by the authorities and in recent months more than a dozen medical staff have been arrested on suspicion of carrying out illegal abortions.

We could see this turning into everything from an inconvenient to a life-threatening week for many, many Spanish women. So our thoughts are with them. Actually, due to our grossly immature sense of humor, our thoughts are actually settled on certain baby jokes we’ll refrain from sharing. But it seemed like the right thing to say.

Spain abortion clinics on strike [BBC News]