Friday, October 19, 2012

Uruguay senate approves bill decriminalizing first-trimester abortions

[JURIST] Uruguay's Senate [official website, in Spanish] passed a bill [text, PDF, in Spanish] on Wednesday by a vote of 17-14 that legalizes abortions within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Although the bill declares [El Observador backgrounder, in Spanish] that the public health care system must allow any woman to decide whether or not to have an abortion, senators removed language from the bill that proclaimed, "every adult woman has the right to decide whether to end her pregnancy...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/10/uruguay-senate-approves-bill-decriminalizing-first-trimester-abortions.php

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