Posted by
Ikester on Saturday, December 05, 2009 5:21:45 PM
Veracruz has become the 17th Mexican state to outlaw most abortions and has initiated a process that may result in a federal constitutional amendment to ban the procedure.
Legislators in Veracruz voted 39-6 for a bill that defines life as beginning at conception and permits exceptions for abortions in the cases of a threat to the mother’s life, pregnancy by rape or a deformity in the unborn child, according to the Associated Press.
The Nov. 17 action means more than half of Mexico’s 32 states have adopted pro-life laws since Mexico City’s legislature approved an abortion rights law in April 2007. That law permits abortions in Mexico City during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
The Veracruz lawmakers also approved a measure requiring Mexico’s Congress to take up an amendment to the constitution that would ban abortion. Observers said the proposal has a likelihood of being adopted, AP reported.
And we call Mexico a nation that is backwards!!