Spain is finalising the details of a draft law that would guarantee the right to seek an abortion in the country’s free public healthcare system and scrap the requirement for 16-year-olds and above to obtain parental consent.

This follows a move last month to criminalise anyone trying “to impede (a woman) from exercising her right to abortion” through “bothersome, offensive, intimidating or threatening acts”.

Sources from Spain’s Equality Ministry confirmed last week that the draft legislation was in its final stages. Media outlet Cadena SER said it would be submitted for cabinet approval tomorrow.

While the final details of the proposed law are not clear, one of the radical shifts is the scrapping of parental permission for 16 and 17-year-olds, a measure that was introduced by the former conservative government in 2015.