DeclinetoState
03-31-2007, 09:16 AM
By CARLOS RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Writer
Fri Mar 30, 12:21 AM ET
MEXICO CITY - Several thousand women marched through the Mexican capital in support of a bill to legalize abortion in the first three months of pregnancy, a proposal that has drawn harsh criticism from the Roman Catholic Church.
About 3,000 protesters led by city legislators from various political parties on Thursday shouted "Freedom to choose!" and criticized President Felipe Calderon, a social conservative who has spoken out against the reform.
"A woman can decide to have an abortion or not have it, but it's her decision," said former presidential candidate Patricia Mercado, a leftist and feminist. "A secular state has the obligation to give the right to women to take this decision in the best conditions."
The bill was proposed by the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, which holds a majority in the assembly in Mexico City — a federal district with its own legislature — and party legislators are confident it will pass in April.
More (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_on_he_me/mexico_abortion_2)
Mexico City's liberals are just as sick as ours, I guess.
The chances of this legislation, if passed, having any effect on illegal immigration to "El Norte" would be, in my estimation, about zero.
Fri Mar 30, 12:21 AM ET
MEXICO CITY - Several thousand women marched through the Mexican capital in support of a bill to legalize abortion in the first three months of pregnancy, a proposal that has drawn harsh criticism from the Roman Catholic Church.
About 3,000 protesters led by city legislators from various political parties on Thursday shouted "Freedom to choose!" and criticized President Felipe Calderon, a social conservative who has spoken out against the reform.
"A woman can decide to have an abortion or not have it, but it's her decision," said former presidential candidate Patricia Mercado, a leftist and feminist. "A secular state has the obligation to give the right to women to take this decision in the best conditions."
The bill was proposed by the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, which holds a majority in the assembly in Mexico City — a federal district with its own legislature — and party legislators are confident it will pass in April.
More (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070330/ap_on_he_me/mexico_abortion_2)
Mexico City's liberals are just as sick as ours, I guess.
The chances of this legislation, if passed, having any effect on illegal immigration to "El Norte" would be, in my estimation, about zero.