Abortion ship sails to Portugal
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Pro-choice Dutch medics set sail for Portugal, where they hope to provide women with advice on abortion.
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Portugal banned a Dutch boat with an  abortion clinic on board from entering its territorial waters  Saturday, but activists said the bar was illegal and they still  hoped to find a way to carry out abortions.
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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 operators of a Dutch boat made into a floating abortion clinic vowed to take Portugal to court after the country refused permission for the ship to enter its territorial waters.
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Portuguese voted on Sunday on whether to legalize abortion in a referendum that could bring the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country closer into line with most other European states.Comment
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South Africa's parliament approved a bill broadening access to abortions by allowing nurses to perform the operation.
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BREMEN, Germany, Sep 21 (IPS) - The Panamanian flagged ship Probo Koala unloaded  more than 550 tonnes of toxic waste at Abidjan port in C- te  d'Ivoire a month back. Emissions from that toxic waste have  killed seven people and poisoned thousands.
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Portugal introduced a new law Thursday that allows abortion up to the 10th week of pregnancy, but imposes a three-day reflection period for women seeking the procedure and grants doctors the right to opt out on moral grounds.
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Portugal's ruling Socialists will use their majority in parliament to legalize abortion after Sunday's referendum on the issue failed because turnout was too low to make it binding.Comment
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A Portuguese court has backed the government's decision to ban the Dutch abortion boat sponsored by the group Women on Waves from entry the country's sovereign waters.
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The statement read: This is fantastic news. We are both absolutely delighted. We are planning to have the baby in Spain. The England captain and Real Madrid midfielder had revealed earlier this month that
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Mozambique is set to end its blanket ban on abortion after the government acknowledged that current legislation was endangering the lives of women in one of Africa&#39;s most impoverished nations.
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LISBON, Sep 10 (IPS) - The so-called âabortion shipâ belonging to the  Dutch  pro-choice foundation âWomen on Wavesâ (WoW) is on its way  home after  spending two weeks in international waters off the  Portuguese coast.
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Portugal's president announces that the country will hold a February referendum on whether to legalise abortion.
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Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, a pill that has largely faded from the rancorous public debate over abortion has slowly and quietly begun to transform the experience of ending a pregnancy in the United States.
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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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A woman left infertile after cancer treatment takes her bid  to use frozen IVF embryos to have a baby to Europe.