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25 April 2007, posted by Manuela Garza Ascencio
IPS - The Mexico City legislature voted Tuesday to legalise abortion, after several weeks of heated debate in which conservative groups and the Catholic Church traded insults with pro-choice activists and threatened them with excommunication.
Mexico City has now joined Cuba and Guyana as the only places in Latin America where abortion is legal.
The bill must now be signed into law by Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard of the leftwing Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), who said he would do (...)