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The "Basauri Eleven" case, convicted of abortion in the 1970s, turns 50

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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the arrest of a group of housewives by the National Police in Basauri. Ures later, they were tried and convicted for abortions or simply attempted abortions, because abortion was a crime in Spain. Mende half later, they remain unknown but the case became known as "Basauri's Eleven", was a symbol of Basque feminism in the early 1980s. MSpain passed the abortion law shortly after those women were convicted.

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