https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed After a Barcelona woman declined her doctor's suggestion to induce labour, the hospital came back with police and a court order telling her she had to. https://www.thelocal.es/20160705/court-tells-pregnant-woman-to-induce-labour-against-her-will Tue, 05 Jul 2016 17:29:08 +0200 court-tells-pregnant-woman-to-induce-labour-against-her-will A baby has died in a car accident on the same stretch of road where it was born only 16 days earlier in Spain. https://www.thelocal.es/20160330/baby-dies-on-same-road-where-it-was-born-16-days-earlier Wed, 30 Mar 2016 13:03:17 +0200 baby-dies-on-same-road-where-it-was-born-16-days-earlier A woman has given birth in what has to be one of the most unusual places imaginable... the side of a motorway in Madrid. https://www.thelocal.es/20160308/woman-gives-birth-on-motorway-in-spain-baby-police Tue, 08 Mar 2016 12:11:00 +0100 woman-gives-birth-on-motorway-in-spain-baby-police A woman in Spain is planning to take legal action against doctors who performed an emergency caesarean section without anesthetics. https://www.thelocal.es/20140319/they-gave-me-c-section-without-anaestesiamum Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:59:00 +0100 they-gave-me-c-section-without-anaestesiamum A Galician woman gave birth to a baby daughter in a hotel room on Sunday just two hours after hospital staff diagnosed her as not being in labour and sent her home again. https://www.thelocal.es/20130702/hospital-blunder-induces-hotel-baby-birth Tue, 02 Jul 2013 18:08:00 +0200 hospital-blunder-induces-hotel-baby-birth