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Mexico City Legalizes Abortion
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Contributor | RP |
Last Edited | RP Apr 24, 2007 10:49pm |
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Category | News |
Media | TV News - Columbia Broadcasting System CBS News |
News Date | Wednesday, April 25, 2007 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | Mexico City lawmakers voted to legalize abortion Tuesday, a decision likely to influence policies and health practices across Mexico and other parts of heavily Roman Catholic Latin America.
The proposal, approved 46-19, with one abstention, would take effect with the expected signing by the federal district's leftist mayor. But abortion opponents have already vowed to appeal the law to the Supreme Court, a move likely to extend the bitter and emotional debate in this predominantly Catholic nation.
The law alarmed Mexico's conservative ruling party and prompted the Vatican to send its top anti-abortion campaigner to the Mexican capital, where ranks of riot police separated chanting throngs of demonstrators from both sides outside the city legislature.
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