Faroese parliament to vote on bypassing abortion bill committee

The Faroese parliament will vote this afternoon on whether to take an abortion bill proposal out of committee without a report, KVF reports. The motion was put forward by Hervør Pálsdóttir and concerns amendments sought by Miðflokkurin to the new abortion law.

If the motion passes, the bill will proceed to a second reading.

The Legal Affairs Committee has had the matter since 24 September. It requested an extension to 4 November to prepare its report and decided on 23 October to write one. However, no report was presented at the parliamentary session on 4 November.

Parliamentary rules allow a member to ask the speaker to put to a vote whether debate should continue when a committee report has not been submitted.