Mexico’s Senate considers bill to legalize abortion across nation

By IOAN GRILLO
Associated Press Writer

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Senators from Mexico’s largest leftist party on Tuesday sent a bill proposing to legalize abortion nationwide, a measure strongly opposed by the nation’s conservative and Roman Catholic leaders.

Under the bill filed by the Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, the second-largest force in Congress, women would be able to have an abortion within the first three months of pregnancy. The bill also proposes that government health clinics provide women with abortions if they request them.

“We need to stop thousands of women from dying in unsafe operations,” said Sen. Carlos Navarrete who heads the PRD in the Senate. “This is a right our laws should guarantee.”

Under current Mexican law, abortion is only permitted if the pregnancy endangers a woman’s life or if the woman has been raped.

Many wealthier Mexican women travel to the United States for the procedure while thousands more poorer women remain in Mexico and have back-street operations. (empasis mine -mm)

Now where have I heard this argument before? Oh yeah, here in the States to allow abortion to be used as a form of post-coitus birth control so that millions of babies can be murdered so that the adults are not inconvenienced by the child. Let's legalize murder for the poor because the rich have the resources to do it! I can see the logic in that!!! -mm