Mexico's president wants abortion referendum
MEXICO CITY, March 11 (UPI) -- Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he wants a referendum on abortion, sparking immediate opposition from abortion rights advocates in this overwhelmingly Catholic country.
Mexico's 32 states consider abortions criminal unless the pregnancy results from rape or if it endangers the woman's health and life or because of fetal abnormalities. Mexico City is the country's only jurisdiction that permits a woman to abort up to 12 weeks of gestation.
The president's ruling party, Morena, has sufficient votes in Mexico's federal congress to begin a constitutional reform process to decriminalize abortion up to 12 weeks.
Read more at: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/03/11/Mexicos-president-wants-abortion-referendum/7351552323810/
We have savage late-term abortion laws with the late-term abortions, we are there with China and North Korea and actually, what Lila Rose said is correct, despite the big kerfuffle about late-term abortions in the news, our laws have already been lenient in that aspect.
