Rome, Italy: A woman in Malta has been charged in court for having an abortion, campaigners said Thursday, in a rare enforcement of the Mediterranean island nation's total ban on terminations.

"What should have never happened, happened today: a Maltese woman was brought to court facing charges of having a medical abortion at home," the Women's Rights Foundation said in a post on social media.

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