Low turnout frustrates Portuguese drive to change abortion law
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A woman casts her vote at Rodrigo Elementary School's polling station in Covilha, central Portugal.Comment
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The controversy over Italyâs 30-year-old law legalizing abortion stirred up demonstrations this week in its defense.
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Portugal's opposition Socialists have  vowed to hold a referendum to ease strict abortion laws if they  win snap elections next month.
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Portuguese voters will decide on Sunday whether the country's strict laws on abortion should be relaxed.
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Hundreds of women rallied in Rome and Naples on Thursday to protest police interrogation of a woman after she underwent an abortion and to oppose a campaign push by some conservatives to change Italy's abortion law.
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Portugal's prime minister said he will enact more liberal abortion laws in the conservative Roman Catholic country even though his proposal to relax restrictions failed to win complete endorsement in a referendum.
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LISBON, Jul 20 (IPS) - Pleading "conscientious objection," a  significant proportion of doctors in Portugal are preventing  women from making use of the law authorising abortions up to 10  weeks of gestation, which entered into force on Sunday.
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Private clinics that carry out most legal abortions in Spain hold a strike to get the law changed.
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Portugal is deciding in a national referendum Sunday whether to discard its strict abortion law, a battle that pits the Socialists government against conservative parties and the Catholic Church.Comment
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Democrats are encountering a mixture of resistance and retreat from abortion rights advocates in their own party.
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Portugal holds a referendum on Sunday to  decide whether to legalise abortion, an emotive issue in the  overwhelmingly Catholic country where there are worries not  enough people will vote to validate a decision.
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Abortion opponents, hoping to get around voters' objections to a previous measure, announced a bill Monday that would ban the procedure in the state except in limited instances.
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Private clinics in Spain, which perform most of the countryâs abortions, began a five-day strike on Tuesday to protest what they said was persecution by anti-choice activists and government inspectors.
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With less than a month to go before Spain holds the EU's first referendum on the European Constitution, not everyone is happy with the campaign.
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European Parliament legislators on Thursday turned a fight over abortion rights in Portugal into an emotional and divisive debate on women's rights and the division between church and state.
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LISBON - Portuguese voters were deciding on Sunday whether to legalize abortion in a referendum which could bring the overwhelmingly Catholic country closer into line with most other European ...Comment
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It is not yet clear whether voters in Portugal will have their say on the European Constitution.