Three women have been accused in court of committing an abortion on themselves, or allowed for methods to be used to cause an abortion since the year 2000, Home Affairs Minister Michael Farrugia said in Parliament.

He was responding to a Parliamentary Question posed by PN MP Karol Aquilina.  The minister said that the first case took place in 2006 and concerned a Maltese 23-year-old woman, who was given a probation order for three years. The second case, he said, was in 2014 and concerned a foreign 29-year-old woman who was sentenced to an 18 month suspended sentence. The last was also in 2014, he said, and concerned a 30-year-old foreign woman who was given a two-year suspended sentence, he said.