Portugal Voters Deciding on Abortion Law
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Portugal is deciding in a national referendum Sunday whether to discard its strict abortion law, a battle that pits the Socialist government against conservative parties and the Catholic Church.Comment
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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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Portugal voted in the predominantly Roman Catholic country's second referendum in less than a decade on whether to liberalise one of Europe's most restrictive abortion laws.
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Catholic Portugal's decision to join  most European countries and allow abortions has shaken the  country's conservative establishment but was hailed by liberals  as a victory for modernity.
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Floridians will get to settle the long-running battle between advocates of the privacy rights of pregnant girls seeking abortions and supporters of the rights of parents to know about them.
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Portugal is deciding in a national referendum Sunday whether to discard its strict abortion law, a battle that pits the Socialist government against conservative parties and the Catholic Church.
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Portugal goes to the polls on Sunday to vote on whether to allow a woman to have an abortion within the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.
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Portuguese voters backed a proposal to liberalize one of Europe's most restrictive abortion laws, but the referendum is not legally binding due to the low turnout, according to exit polls.
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Voters in Hungary went to the polls Sunday to decide a double referendum on citizenship rights and their nation's health care system.
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Voters will have the final say on South Dakota&#039;s tough new law that bans almost all abortions.
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Portugal's Catholic church blamed "cultural mutation" on Friday for the large number of people who voted to legalize abortion in a referendum and urged doctors to refuse to carry out the operation if asked.
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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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Most secondary school teachers think their pupils should learn how to obtain an abortion as part of sex education classes, according to a poll.
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REVELATIONS that an NHS-backed charity helped women to travel to Spain for abortions that would be illegal in Britain are proof that the UK - s abortion law should be relaxed, a leading pro-choice campaigner ...
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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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LISBON - Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates said on Sunday he would ask parliament to vote to lift a ban on abortion despite a referendum on the issue looking likely to fail due to low voter turnout."The ...Comment
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A national referendum to scrap Portugal's strict abortion law appeared headed to defeat Sunday because of low turnout, even though a majority of voters approved it.