Morning-after pill distorts abortion figures in Spain, experts assert

Catholic News Agency: “Spain’s Health Minister, Trinidad Jimenez, attributed the decline in the unofficial number of first-time abortions to the legalization of the morning-after pill. According to the newspaper La Razon, Jimenez said abortions have dropped by more than 3,000 since 2008. Hertfelder called that claim a ‘lie.’ ‘Perhaps there are fewer surgical abortions,’ he said, ‘but chemical abortions, like those caused by the pill, are on the rise.’”