Portugal set to vote on abortion
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In Portugal the campaign for Sunday's referendum on abortion reform has ended.
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Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio is to dissolve parliament and call early elections over a cabinet crisis.
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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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A referendum is under way in Venezuela to decide if President Hugo Chavez should remain in office.
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More than 1,000 women in Portugal had to be hospitalised last year due to complications following backstreet abortions in a country whose laws forbid legal abortion, health statistics showed.
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Portugal's prime minister said legislation relaxing the conservative Roman Catholic country's strict law on abortion could be approved by the end of March, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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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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Voters failed to overturn Portugal's strict abortion law Sunday because of low turnout at the polls, but the prime minister nonetheless vowed to relax the restriction through legislation in the conservative ...Comment
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Voters will have the final say on a tough new law that bans almost all abortions in South Dakota.
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Official campaigning begins in Portugal ahead of a referendum on easing its strict abortion law.
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All pregnant women should officially register and get permission if they want an abortion, a minister says.
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The European Union braced for a knife-edge vote to decide the fate of its new executive arm with incoming EU chief Jose Manuel Barroso hardening his stance against rebel legislators.
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Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes has ruled out halting prosecutions of women who break Portugal's tough abortion laws, which only allow the procedure in cases involving rape or where there are serious health concerns.
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A large number of doctors in Portugal were refusing to carry out a law that took effect Sunday permitting abortions up to the 10th week of pregnancy.
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Portuguese leader Jose Socrates has pledged to legalise abortion By setting out on the path to legalise abortion, Portugal treads where most western nations did 30 or 40 years ago.Comment
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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 government's proposal to scrap restrictions failed to win complete endorsement ...Comment
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Portugal's president announces that the country will hold a February referendum on whether to legalise abortion.