Portugal mulls liberalizing abortion law
572174
Bishop Antonio Montes Moreira compares abortion to the hanging of Saddam Hussein. Meanwhile, parish priest Tarsicio Alves warns worshippers they'll be automatically excommunicated if they vote "yes" in a referendum Sunday.
371724
NEW DELHI -- Indian women would be required to register their pregnancies and seek government permission for abortions under a proposal intended to curb abortions of female fetuses in the country, where boys are traditionally preferred.
46695
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
727800
Dr. Susan Wicklund wants to encourage more open discussion of abortion and its prevalence.
317392
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.
10432
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.
415816
The condition of the baby at the centre of a right to life debate has changed for the better, a High Court judge hears.
738980
MADRID, Spain, SEPT. 20, 2004 ( Zenit.org ).- Spanish bishops warn that a plan by the Socialist government to liberalize the divorce law will bring "more divorces and more suffering." A draft bill, which would ...
696908
Northern Ireland&#39;s Department of Health has been ordered to draw up guidelines on when abortion can be carried out. The Court of Appeal in the North made the order.
342716
Dutch doctors are calling for a domestic legal framework that would allow them to end the lives of newborn babies suffering intolerable pain from incurable diseases, a move that rekindles the debate on the controversial issue of euthanasia.
321746
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.
518559
It is not yet clear whether voters in Portugal will have their say on the European Constitution.
197535
A referendum to liberalize the abortion law was approved, but turnout was too low for the result to be deemed valid.
448070
Portugal's prime minister says the country's parliament will legalise abortion despite a low referendum turnout.
156851
The British Medical Association conference will consider a call for quicker and easier access to abortion.
461845
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.
291260
Doctors in the Netherlands call for new laws allowing the mercy killing of newborn babies under certain conditions.