The Mexico City legislature yesterday approved a bill to make abortion legal in the first 3 months of pregnancy. This makes Mexico City the largest entity other than Cuba and Puerto Rico to permit abortions in all of Latin America. 10 million women will now have access to safe abortions, not including the millions of others that may travel to the city for the procedure. This has sparked controversy in the predominantly Catholic, socially conservative society. The Pope has condemned the bill and the archbishop of Acapulco said that lawmakers who approved the bill will be automatically excommunicated. For more, go to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/25/world/americas/25mexico.html?_r=1&ref=americas&oref=slogin
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