US woman left traumatised after Malta hospital refuses life-saving abortion

Desperate' tourist who fell foul of country's total ban fears for her life if complications set in while she waits for transfer to UK

Doctors have denied an American woman on holiday in Malta a potentially life-saving abortion, despite saying her baby had a zero chance" of survival after she was admitted to hospital with severe bleeding in her 16th week of pregnancy.

Despite an extreme risk" of haemorrhage and infection, doctors at the Mater Dei hospital in Msida told Andrea Prudente that they would not perform a termination because of the country's total ban on abortion.