Mexico City Legalizes Abortion

[Article] Mexico City’s lawmakers voted this week to legalize abortion, splitting the Mexican population, which is 90 percent Catholic, into two camps.


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The city’s legislative assembly voted 46 to 19 to legalize abortion in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy. Previous to this bill passing, abortion was only allowed in cases of rape, when the foetus had severe birth defects or when the woman’s life was put at risk by the pregnancy. Only Cuba,...
This article was published Friday, 27 April, 2007 by AFP
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Mexico City Legalizes Abortion


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