Portuguese women will soon have access to legal early-term abortion.
Prime Minister Jose Socrates has said abortion will be legalised in Portugal despite the turnout for a referendum being too low to be legally binding…
The proposal allows all women abortion until the 10th week of pregnancy….
In cases of rape, abortions are allowed within 16 weeks. The limit is 24 weeks if there is a risk that the child will be born with an incurable disease or deformity.
While not ideal, this is a big step for a very conservative country, and I think it’s a very encouraging detail that the lawmakers will be acting on the referendum results even though they don’t technically have to because of low voter turnout. People against abortion in America might benefit from the lessons learned by this religious country:
As a result many Portuguese women go to Spain for terminations or resort to illegal abortions.
Some women have abortions done in unsanitary conditions and risk ending up with infections or other serious complications from which they may die.
Mr Socrates had called for voters to back the changes to put an end to the “national shame” of back-street abortions.
“The choice placed before Portugal is whether it resigns itself to staying in the group of the most conservative countries or if it embraces modernity and joins the most developed nations,” he said on Thursday.
Quick—Nuke Portugal before their fast heathen women cause any loss of life!