Catherine Bremer and Adriana Barrera of Reuters report
The Mexican capital legalized abortion on Tuesday, defying the church but delighting feminists in the world's second-largest Roman Catholic country.The legislation applies only to Mexico City and not to the rest of the country. Opinion polls show that Mexico, though heavily Roman Catholic, is split over abortion. Times they are a changin.
Mexico City lawmakers voted 46 to 19 to pass a leftist-sponsored bill allowing women to abort in the first three months of pregnancy.
