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<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Seattle couple was on their "babymoon" in <keyword id="13139777" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="malta" source="Orion">Malta</keyword> when the woman began miscarrying. </li><li>The fetus has a "zero percent" chance of survival, but doctors won't terminate the pregnancy due to the country's strict <keyword id="11998397" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="abortion-ban" source="Orion">abortion ban</keyword>. </li></ul><p>Seattle couple Andrea Prudente and Jay Weeldreyer were celebrating the upcoming birth of their first child in the Mediterranean when Prudente began bleeding heavily. She was 16 weeks pregnant. </p><p>Doctors on the island of Gozo, near Malta, gave her medication to help prevent a miscarriage. But on June 12, a few days later in Malta, the couple's main destination, Prudente's water broke. At the hospital, she learned her placenta had become partially detached and, two days later, that she'd lost all amniotic fluid, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jun/22/us-woman-left-traumatised-after-malta-hospital-refuses-life-saving-abortion">the Guardian reported</a>. </p><p>Doctors told her the pregnancy had "zero chance" of survival — but that they coudn't remove it due to Malta's strict ban on <keyword id="11901426" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="abortion" source="Orion">abortion</keyword>. </p><p>Meanwhile, Prudente was diagnosed with a ruptured membrane and a protruding umbilical cord, greatly raising her risk of severe bleeding and infection. She also tested positive for COVID-19.</p><p>She and Weeldreyer are trying to get an immediate medical evacuation to the UK, where they believe a termination could save her life. But they've already been waiting nearly a week to get the appropriate paperwork to their insurance company, according to <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgpxzx/malta-abortion">VICE World News</a>. </p><p>Until they can travel, Prudente must continue to wait for the fetus's heart to stop beating or develop an infection so severe her life is in immediate danger. Only then, will Maltese clinicians intervene, reports, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jun/22/us-woman-left-traumatised-after-malta-hospital-refuses-life-saving-abortion">including from the BBC</a>, say. </p><p>"I just want to get out of here alive," Prudente told the Guardian. "I couldn't in my wildest dreams have thought up a nightmare like this."</p><p>"It's an inconceivable form of emotional and psychological torture," Weeldreyer added. "Part of me still celebrates hearing the heartbeat … and at the same time, I don't want that heartbeat there because this is just leading to more suffering for this woman that I love."</p><h2>Malta has a total ban on abortion, but some groups say there are exceptions    </h2><p>Malta, a chain of islands in the Mediterranean, is the only country in the EU with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/19/the-fight-for-abortion-in-malta">a total ban on abortion</a>. Anti-abortion organizations in Malta say, however, that there are exceptions to the ban when the mother's life is at risk.  </p><p>"Maltese law and medical precedent are absolutely clear: if a woman's life is at risk from her pregnancy, then it is absolutely legal for her pregnancy to be ended by delivering the child, even if that child has a heartbeat, and even if the child will sadly pass away. This would not be considered in Maltese law or medicine as an abortion," OB-GYN <a href="https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/georgegbuttigieg">Dr. George Gregory Buttigieg</a> said in a statement sent to Insider. </p><p>"As a Professor of Obstetrics, I have delivered babies prematurely in life threatening situations and have never been worried about legal repercussions." He and others, including representatives of <a href="https://lifenetwork.eu/">Life Network Malta</a>, and <a href="https://doctorsforlifemalta.org/pregnant-mother-at-mdh/">Doctors for Life</a> point to the country's <a href="https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/Malta/maternal_mortality/">low maternal mortality rate</a> as proof their model works. </p><p>Still, hundreds of women travel abroad each year to obtain an abortion, and increasingly others have been illegally accessing the abortion pill, the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55579339">has reported</a>.  </p><p>Doctors for Choice Malta has publicized Prudente's story, per her request, "in the hope of avoiding a tragedy" like <a href="https://www.irishcentral.com/news/savita-halappanavar">Savita Halappanavar.</a> The former dentist living in Ireland was 17 weeks pregnant when she began miscarrying in 2012. After being denied a termination due to the country's abortion ban at the time, she died of sepsis. </p><p>"We hope common sense prevails and this woman is allowed to have a termination before it is too late," Doctors for Choice wrote on social media, referring to Prudente. "We have also heard from Maltese women who were in similar situations but were scared to speak out. This is not right. Women have beating hearts too!</p><p>American OB-GYNs <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/health-risks-overturning-roe-v-wade-abortion-rcna27109">have speculated about similar situations</a> occuring in the US if Roe v Wade is overturned. Making abortion only legal when the mother's life is at risk puts doctors in an "untenable position," Shaina Goodman, director for <keyword id="11940340" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="reproductive-health" source="Orion">reproductive health</keyword> and rights at the National Partnership for Women and Families, <a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2022/06/22/critics-fear-abortion-bans-could-jeopardize-health-of-pregnant-women">told Stateline</a>. "At what point is the life of the mother at risk, when she's coding on the table?"</p>

A US tourist in Malta has been refused a life-saving abortion, and is struggling to get permission to fly

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Humans have long been fascinated by the winter solstice.</li><li>Many cultures found ways to incorporate it in their important sites. </li></ul><p>The winter solstice is the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sad-seasonal-affective-disorder-depression-winter-what-to-do-2017-11">longest night of the year</a>.</p><p>It's the time when the planet is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/when-is-winter-solstice-shortest-day-year-december-2018-12">tilted furthest away</a> from the sun, but also marks the time when the days start <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-equinox-and-solstice-work-in-simple-animation-2020-9">getting longer</a>.</p><p>For millennia, people have looked out for that somewhat mystical day, which often symbolizes the beginning of winter or a time of rebirth. </p><p>Archaeologists have found many ancient sites that line up with the winter solstice sun. But the purpose of these sites often remains shrouded in mystery. </p><p>Here are 11 sites that line up with the winter solstice, and what experts think about them.</p><h2>Nazca Lines, <strong>southeast of Lima, </strong>Peru</h2><div type="image" title="An aerial photo shows the shape of a condor drawn into the Atacama desert." height="1333" width="1778" msid="96298690" hostid="261"></div><p>Scientists who studied the Nazca lines in the 1940s noticed one of them lined up perfectly with the southern hemisphere sunset on July 21. </p><p>Paul Kosok and Maria Reiche, who studied the phenomenon, thought this could mean the mysterious lines could serve as a sort of astronomical calendar. </p><p>That theory has <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/south-america/nazca-lines#:~:text=More%20recent%20research%20suggested%20that,to%20bring%20much%2Dneeded%20rain.">since been discredited</a>, and we still don't know what practical or spiritual purpose these lines may have served. But the idea remains a draw for tourists around the world.  </p><h2>Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland</h2><div type="image" title="Peopel are sat on the floor or looking up at the sky. In the background, Newgrange appears as circular structure made of rocks surmounted by grass" height="1307" width="1742" msid="96298692" hostid="261"></div><p>Found 26 miles north of Dublin, <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/want-to-witness-winter-solstice-at-newgrange-you-havent-missed-it-10866174">Newgrange</a>, a massive circular structure, is about 5000 years old. That makes it older than Stonehenge and the pyramids. </p><p>"There are a number of Neolithic monuments that have solstice or equinox orientations at the heart of their architecture, indicating that these alignments were core to their belief system," said Jennifer Wexler, curator of the World of Stonehenge exhibit at the British Museum, in an email to Insider.</p><p>Newgrange is one of the earliest of these monuments that aligns with the winter solstice, and may have inspired Stonehenge, she said. They were generally built by early farmers, she said.</p><p>"Key to their survival was understanding important moments in the seasonal cycle and the cycle of the sun, as this would dictate their farming year as well become central to their religious beliefs," she said.</p><p>Above the entrance at Newgrange, a slab of rock placed horizontally creates the so-called roof box, which can be seen below. </p><div type="image" title="A picture shows the entrance of Newgrange. An opening peers between monolythic walls of grey stone stacked on top of each other. In fron of the opening is a large boulder carved with celtic shapes." height="1325" width="1766" msid="96298694" hostid="261"></div><p>On the winter solstice, light filters through this tiny opening and creates a bright beam that travel through a 62-foot passageway to an inner chamber.</p><p>The beam spreads to finally illuminate the whole chamber. </p><p>There's little doubt that this building was made to mark the solstice. Its impressive architecture seems entirely directed towards capturing that singular beam of light.</p><p>But because this was built in prehistoric times, there's no written record of what it may have been used for. It's possible it was only used to mark the time, but <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/science/irish-archaeology-incest-tomb.html">scientists suspect</a> it may have had a spiritual or ritual significance.</p><div type="image" title="A picture shows the inside of the Newgrange monument. Narrow stone corridors are lined with drawings of animals." height="2530" width="2000" msid="96298696" hostid="261"></div><h2>Sun temple, Machu Picchu, Peru</h2><div type="image" title="Machu Pichu tourist" height="1334" width="1778" msid="96298698" hostid="261"></div><p>One of the most famous examples of ancient architecture lining up with the winter solstice is in Machu Picchu, Peru. </p><p>On June 21, the winter solstice in the southern hemispheres a beam of light <a href="https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20110720-what-most-people-miss-at-machu-picchu">shines through a window</a> on a temple celebrating the sun god, forming a rectangular shape on a slab of granite. </p><p>Machu Picchu also hosts another, perhaps slightly less well known, monument to the December solstice, called <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/things-you-never-knew-about-machu-picchu-2017-2">Intimachay or "the cave of the Sun".</a> The sun shines onto the back wall of this structure for 10 days before and after the solstice. </p><h2>Temple of Karnak, Luxor, Egypt</h2><div type="image" title="The sun peers through two massive walls that line the Temple of Karnak during the alignment of the winter solstice sunrise to the temple in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor on December 20, 2014." height="2658" width="3551" msid="96298699" hostid="261"></div><p>Tourists flock to the Temple of Karnak to watch the winter solstice rise in alignment with the main axis of the temple. </p><p>The temple was built in Luxor more than 4,000 years ago. It was the main place of worship the sun god Amun-Ra. </p><p>When it was originally designed, the sun would have been perfectly aligned with the temple's axis, but <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322715030_The_Karnak_Temple_and_the_Motion_of_the_Earth's_Axis">one study</a> said that the alignment has since been knocked out of whack by half a degree due to the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/earths-shortest-day-chandler-wobble-recorded-2022-159-milliseconds-clock-8">Earth's axis wobbling</a>. </p><h2>An ancient tomb in Qubbet el-Hawa, Egypt, revealed this year </h2><div type="image" title="A tomb in Qubbet el-Hawa is shown in Winter. The light filtering into the tomb seems to line up with the back of the tomb." height="1499" width="1999" msid="96298700" hostid="261"></div><p>A tomb found in the necropolis of Qubet el-Hawa in Egypt may be the <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/971832">oldest tomb</a> oriented to the winter solstice, scientists said in November. </p><p>Light filters into tomb, seen above and his the back on the day of the winter solstice. When it was built in around 1830 BC, a statue of the local governor would have been placed in the alcove. </p><p>"The alignment of tomb 33 in Qubbet el-Hawa was INTENTIONAL and it was full of religious significance," Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano, director of Qubbet el-Hawa Project from the University of Jaén, Spain, told Insider in an email. </p><p>"From the winter solstice the days are longer, which was a metaphor of the rebirth of the deceased," he said. </p><h2>Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, US</h2><div type="image" title="An aerial view of Pueblo Bonito shows the ruins of a semi circular settlement." height="1393" width="1857" msid="96298701" hostid="261"></div><p>This settlement, called Pueblo Bonito, seems to have been constructed in line with astronomical landmarks in order to maximise solar heating during the year. </p><p>Built between 850 and 1150 by ancestral Puebloan peoples, it was a massive house.</p><p>Two second-story windows on the southeast end of the building have attracted scrutiny over the years. Light only shines through this window during eight weeks of the year, in the <a href="https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/education/prehistoric-southwest/solstice-window">lead-up to the winter solstice</a>.</p><p>Though it is possible this is a coincidence, scientists think this could have given people in the house a lead-up to prepare for the winter months. </p><h2>Hovenweep Castle, southeastern Utah, US</h2><div type="image" title="Hovenweep castle ruins are shown bathed in bright orange sunset light set against a stormy sky" height="1269" width="1692" msid="96298702" hostid="261"></div><p>The Hovenweep castle was an ancestral Puebloan settlement, inhabited until the early 14th century. </p><p><a href="https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/education/prehistoric-southwest/hovenweep-castle#fig3">It is thought</a> that the openings on the face of the castle would line up with the equinox and winter-and-summer-solstice sun to allow Puebloans to trace a calendar as the light shone on the wall. </p><h2>Sun daggers, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, US</h2><div type="image" title="A slice of light cuts through a spiral petroglyph tucked away in sandstone." height="1499" width="1999" msid="96298703" hostid="261"></div><p>The ancestral Puebloan people, who lived in the US southwest <a href="https://www.nps.gov/subjects/swscience/ancestral-puebloan.htm#:~:text=Cultural%20traits%20common%20to%20the,kivas%20(subterranean%20ceremonial%20chambers).">until</a> the coming of Spanish explorers in 1540, kept a close eye on the sun because they relied heavily on agriculture for their food.</p><p>To spot the change in seasons, it's possible they marked where these <a href="https://www2.hao.ucar.edu/education/prehistoric-southwest/sun-dagger">"sun daggers"</a> appeared on the rocks by drawing petroglyphs, specific shapes, in the rock.</p><p>The most famous sun dagger is found in Fajada Butte in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.</p><p>During the summer solstice, as seen above, a sun dagger splits a spiral glyph through the middle. During the winter solstice, two daggers appear, which bracket the spiral perfectly, as can be seen in the presentation below. </p><p>There has been <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.10834.pdf#:~:text=A%20'sun%20dagger'%20is%20a,et%20al.%2C%201979).">some debate</a> about whether these carvings were intentionally placed there or they were drawn at random and some just happened to be lined up with the solstice light. </p><h2>Mnajdra megalithic temple, Malta</h2><div type="image" title="A temple in Malta is seen pictured from the inside." height="2304" width="3072" msid="96298706" hostid="261"></div><p>Seven megalithic temples found on the islands of Malta and Gozo in the Mediterranean are world heritage sites. These prehistoric monumental buildings were built between 4,000 BC and 3,000 BC.</p><p>One of these temples, called Mnajdra, is suspiciously aligned with the winter and summer solstice. However, scientists are <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212054822000182">still debating</a> whether this was by design. </p><h2>Stonehenge, southwest England</h2><div type="image" title="Stonehenge." height="851" width="1134" msid="96298707" hostid="261"></div><p>Perhaps the most iconic solstice site, people swarm to witness the sun lining up with the stones in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stonehenge-origins-purpose-built-in-wales-moved-to-england-2021-2">Stonehenge</a> on England's Salisbury Plain. </p><p>"Stonehenge was built to align with the sun on the solstices," Wexler, the Stonehenge expert, told Insider. </p><p>"The winter solstice had particular resonance, a crucial time when the sun's return hung in the balance. Ideas of rebirth were intertwined with the celebrations just as they are with our own mid-winter celebrations," she said.</p><p>Again, because there is no written record of that time, we don't know exactly what Stonehenge was for. </p><p>But evidence suggests at least, that it was a site that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-stonehenge-was-built-2012-7">brought together</a> people from all over the country, who met over the winter months to have lavish feasts and build the massive stone structure, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ancient-poop-gives-clues-about-stonehenge-feast-menu-4500-years-ago-2022-5">Insider previously reported.</a></p><div type="image" title="People celebrating the summer soltice in Stonehenge" height="1333" width="1777" msid="96298708" hostid="261"></div><h2>Woodhenge, Durrington Walls, England</h2><div type="image" title="The big wooden structure in Durrington walls" height="1500" width="2000" msid="96298709" hostid="261"></div><p>These Stonehenge feasts would have taken place in the nearby human settlement in Durrington Walls. </p><p>The settlement was made up of hundreds of wood and chalk houses surrounded by three huge ceremonial structures out of wood pillars.</p><p>"To anybody at that time, Durrington Walls would've looked more impressive than Stonehenge," Michael Parker Pearson, a lead archaeologist on the Durrington Walls excavation site and an author of the study, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ancient-poop-gives-clues-about-stonehenge-feast-menu-4500-years-ago-2022-5">previously told Insider</a>.</p><div type="image" title="An annotated map shows the location of Stonehenge as compared to Durrington Walls" height="983" width="1966" msid="96298710" hostid="261"></div> "Like Stonehenge, Woodhenge and Durrington were aligned with the solstices," Wexley said. <p>"People gathered there from long distances in midwinter for feasting and celebrations. Pilgrims embarked on a choreographed procession to Stonehenge, starting at Durrington and Woodhenge at midwinter's dawn, then by boat along the River Avon, arriving at Stonehenge for sunset," she said.</p>

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Tarsem Singh (24) of Banga village in Nawanshahr district of Punjab had dreamt of a successful and comfortable <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/finance/the-12-cheapest-holiday-destinations-in-europe-for-couples/articleshow/56701895.cms">life in Europe</a>, for which his father sold his one-acre land and paid a travel agent Rs 6 lakh to send him to Germany.<br />
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However, Singh was instead sent to Libya, from where he crossed the jungles and the Mediterranean Sea, only to get trapped in an illegally constructed room at a construction site in Gozo Island with six others from his native state.<br />
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With an expired tourist visa, he doesn’t even seek help from the authorities, fearing arrest. The Libyan agent with whom he travelled from Libya to Malta is demanding Rs 2 lakh to send him to Italy, which his father can’t arrange.<br />
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He is now being forced to go to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/military-defense/syria-threatens-scud-missile-strikes-if-israeli-airstrikes-continue/articleshow/57857704.cms">Syria </a>where he would be working in an arms factory, even though he plans to cross the sea and reach Italy.<br />
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Singh is not alone; there are among dozens of young boys from Punjab who paid travel agents huge money to land in Europe, boarded flights to Europe, but somehow landed in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/meet-the-mumbai-couple-who-drove-to-55-countries-in-8-months/articleshow/57056538.cms">Malta</a>.<br />
<br /> This <keyword id="6357490" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Human-trafficking">human trafficking</keyword> industry, worth millions of dollars, is flourishing because of lack of awareness amongst <keyword id="561240" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Punjabi-youth">Punjabi youth</keyword>. Landing in Malta, they can’t even have proper jobs because of tourist visas. A rigid bureaucratic centre doesn’t help, and many such boys are stuck in detention centres after getting arrested.<br />
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Also read: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/The-horrifying-story-of-a-trafficked-girl-and-the-brave-organisation-that-saved-her/articleshow/53738650.cms">The horrifying story of a trafficked girl and the brave people who saved her</a><br />
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A <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/eat-inside-an-airplane-at-hawai-adda-punajbs-1st-airplane-restaurant/articleshow/56652979.cms">Punjab</a>-based NGO called HelpingHapless is working for such youths trapped in foreign countries, having brought back over 100.<br />
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"Owing to its easy connectivity with big European countries, many unscrupulous agents are using this route for human trafficking. I currently know cases of two Punjabi youths stuck in Malta. They are in a pitiable condition and want to come back. Many Punjabi youths are stuck there, but we do not have any way to contact them," Amanjot Kaur Ramoowalia, co-founder of HelpingHapless, told TNN.<br />
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