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Spanish Lawmakers Approve Law Expanding Abortion Rights
Source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com
21.12.2009 Spain's Congress of Deputies on Thursday approved a bill that would legalize abortion up to 14 weeks' gestation, assert a woman's right to undergo the procedure and remove an existing threat of imprisonment for women who have an abortion outside of specific circumstances, the AP/Google News reports. The 350-member Congress of Deputies voted 184-158 in favor of the bill, with one abstention. According to the AP/Google News, the legislation now progresses to the Senate, which is expected to pass the bill in early 2010. The law is part of a broad reform agenda proposed by Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who came to power in 2004.
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