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Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Saturday, March 31, 2007

Mexican lawmakers propose increasing penalties for abortion amid competing attempts to legalize

ASSOCIATED PRESS

3:25 p.m. March 30, 2007

MEXICO CITY – Lawmakers with Mexico's small Green Party have sent a bill to the Senate that seeks to toughen penalties for illegal abortions, a bid to counteract efforts by leftist legislators to legalize abortion, a senator said Friday.

Green Party Sen. Arturo Escobar said the bill, introduced Thursday, proposes increasing prison sentences – currently between six months to one year – to one to three years for women who have an abortion.

Escobar said the bill also asks that anyone who forces a woman to abort against her will be sentenced to from eight to 10 years in prison, instead of the current six to eight years.

Escobar said the measure is aimed at challenging a bill filed Tuesday in the lower house by the Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, to legalize abortion nationwide.

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