UPDATE: Abortion legalised in Mexico City (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

Mexico City's legislative assembly has voted to legalise abortion in the city, the capital of the world's second-largest Roman Catholic country.

Lawmakers voted 46 to 19 in favour of the bill that will permit abortions of pregnancies in the first 12 weeks.

Mexico City previously allowed abortion only in cases of rape, if the woman's life was at risk or if there were signs of severe defects in the foetus.

Opponents of the abortion law have said they will challenge it in the courts.

Church concerns

The BBC's Duncan Kennedy, in Mexico City, says that for years groups wanting to increase the rights of women have campaigned for change while conservative forces in the Catholic Church and elsewhere have fought to keep the practice outlawed.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6586959.stm

[melody]

1. Heading toward making it illegal here, making it legal there, gosh I wonder why

If they make it bad enough here, we won't mind the North American Union may be their thinking.
They should think again.

[kestrel91316]

2. Imagine that - some day American women will be trying to escape across

the border to get to Mexico City for the abortions they can no longer get here.

[iverglas]

3. thanks for the news!

I can head home and sleep contentedly now.

Something went right in the world today. ;)

[Ind4now]

4. At least

their doing something good down there.