![Spain bans harassment or intimidation of women going for abortions](https://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2022/04/07/ceeb02e3-0286-45f7-a9aa-0a2f4501a2a0/thumbnail/1200x630/27cb444f9d1cf2f17b28090f57259b00/spain-abortion-clinic-protest-1238993281.jpg)
Spain bans harassment or intimidation of women going for abortions
CBSN
Madrid — Spain has criminalized the harassment or intimidation of women going for an abortion under new legislation approved on Wednesday by the Senate. The move, which involved changes to the penal code, means anti-abortion activists who try to convince women not to terminate their pregnancies could face up to a year behind bars.
The measure was proposed by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's Socialist party and will come into effect after being published in the official state bulletin in coming days.
Anyone trying "to impede [a woman] from exercising her right to voluntarily interrupt pregnancy" through "bothersome, offensive, intimidating or threatening acts" will face jail time of between three and 12 months, or community service, the text says.
![](/newspic/picid-6252001-20240607153844.jpg)
Collville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France — The word "hero" is overused. But if not for the courage of the few remaining D-Day survivors and their friends who fell as they launched the fight to oust Adolf Hitler's Nazi German forces from France 80 years ago, there would have been no celebrations this week in Normandy.
![](/newspic/picid-6252001-20240606191328.jpg)
France's domestic intelligence agency has detained a 26-year-old Russian-Ukrainian man on suspicion of planning a violent act after he injured himself in an explosion, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The news came hours before world leaders gathered in the nation to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy.