The Faroe Islands, a remote territory of the Kingdom of Denmark , has voted to end its decades-old regulations on abortion .

The autonomous island’s parliament voted on Thursday to allow abortions on the island from conception to 12 weeks of gestation, having previously outlawed most cases of elective procedures.

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“This change finally affirms women’s autonomy over their own bodies in the Faroe Islands,” Ingilín Didriksen Strøm, a member of parliament who tabled the proposal, told the BBC following the change.

Two women walk beside the harbor in Torshavn, t

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