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Article: Responding to a real need: liberalizing Mexico City's abortion law.
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- Conscience
- Article date:
- March 22, 2008
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ALTHOUGH IN THE LAST decade there has been an international trend toward liberalizing abortion policy, in Latin America complex differences continue to exist between countries in the region. Since 2006, abortion has been permitted in Colombia when a woman's health is at risk, in the case of rape or incest and severe fetal impairment, whereas previously it had been prohibited without exception. During the same year, the Nicaraguan Congress left women to the "will of God" by banning abortion, even to save a woman's life. More recently in Mexico, in the midst of the most intense, wide-reaching public debate on abortion in its history, Mexico ...