{"id":19788,"date":"2018-10-25T11:26:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T11:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19788"},"modified":"2018-10-25T11:26:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T11:26:04","slug":"abortion-taboo-play-tackles-strict-maltese-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19788","title":{"rendered":"Abortion taboo: Play tackles strict Maltese laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"64.7177615572\">\n<p>Malta is the only country in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/european-union.html\">European Union<\/a> with a total ban on abortion, after Ireland changed its law earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being liberal in many ways, the predominantly Catholic island in the Mediterranean maintains a hard line on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>But a Maltese playwright is challenging the law in his first play to discuss the subject openly.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Neave Barker reports from the capital Valletta.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malta is the only country in the European Union with a total ban on abortion, after Ireland changed its law earlier this year. Despite being liberal in many ways, the predominantly Catholic island in the Mediterranean maintains a hard line on the issue. But a Maltese playwright is challenging the law in his first play&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}