Signs and Wonders
Newsworthy | Warren Cole Smith
ASSOCIATED PRESS/PHOTO BY PAUL SCHEMM
A Dutch “abortion boat” bound for the Moroccan port of Smir was blocked from entering the harbor last week. A group called Women on Waves sails to countries where abortion is illegal and was due to arrive in the Moroccan port today to carry out abortions and provide advice to women, but the Moroccan authorities stopped them from docking, sealing the area, and citing “military maneuvers” as the reason. One of the ironies here is that the Dutch birthrate, partly as a result of abortion, is in decline. The Dutch population is holding steady, but mainly because of immigration from predominantly Turkey and Indonesia. All of which is to say that perhaps Morocco has prohibited Women on Waves because it doesn’t want them to do to Morocco what they and their sisters have done to the Netherlands.
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