Mexico's capital plans to legalize abortion
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Mexico City is preparing to legalize abortion -- the first region to do so in heavily Roman Catholic Mexico -- a move the influential church has vowed to challenge.
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A new anti-discrimination rule could permit conjugal visits for gay inmates in Mexico City prisons, a city official said.
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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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A Spanish fertility clinic launched a scheme on Thursday to let women adopt frozen embryos to save them from scientific research just as Spain makes investigation with embryo stem cells fully legal.
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Portugal's parliament voted overwhelmingly to legalize abortion up until the 10th week of pregnancy, a major step in bringing this small Roman Catholic nation in line with most of its European neighbors.
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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.Comment
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The President-elect of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, announces his first cabinet appointments.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico is expanding its ability to tap telephone calls and e-mail using money from the US government, a move that underlines how the country's conservative government is increasingly willing to cooperate with United States on law enforcement.
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Doctors and women's groups are warning that Nicaragua's ban on all abortions -- even to save the mother -- will endanger the lives of thousands of women every year.
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Mexico expects to double automobile capacity in 10 years, attracting investment of as much as $10 billion from foreign automakers, Economy Minister Fernando Canales said in an interview.
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BUDAPEST, May 17 (IPS) - With the strictest abortion laws in Europe, one  would expect any debates to revolve around  its liberalisation.  Yet in 21st century Poland, the abortion issue has been  unsuccessfully  raised by politicians seeking to strengthen  anti-abortion legislation even further.
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Mexico, widely considered the  birthplace of corn, is close to finalizing rules governing  experimental planting of genetically modified corn strains, a  senior biosecurity official said on Tuesday.
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Brazil's government has added "morning after" pills to its newly expanded birth control program in hopes of helping poor people reduce unwanted pregnancies and dangerous illegal abortions.
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Computerised deterrent to teen pregnancies The Mexican state of Chihuahua has formulated a cunning plan to reduce the area's soaring teenage birth rate - obliging youngsters to look after wailing, burping robobabies, Reuters reports.â¦
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Bishop Antonio Montes Moreira compares abortion to the hanging of Saddam Hussein.Comment
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Felipe Calderon took charge Friday of Mexico's presidential residence in what he calls the start of the inauguration process.
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President-elect Felipe Calderon unveiled his agenda Thursday for the one institution many believe can unite the divided nation &#151; Mexico's Congress.