Seldom has the European Parliament chamber seen as many blue cards (indicating MEPs’ desire to put a short question to another MEP) as during the debate on the global gag anti-abortion rule at the plenary session in Strasbourg on Tuesday 14 March.
Deep division, along national lines, among MEPs was apparent on the stance to be adopted towards the executive order by US President Donald Trump banning federal funding to foreign NGOs which support abortion.
Yet, earlier, Parliament had adopted...