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Mexican Activists Take to Streets to Demand Safe, Legal Abortions

Reuters

   MEXICO CITY - Mexican activists took to the streets in large cities
   Saturday to demand safe and legal abortions, many wearing green
   bandanas that have become a symbol with the abortion rights movement in
   Latin America.

   The protests on International Safe Abortion Day come after the Mexican
   state of Oaxaca on Wednesday approved a bill to legalize abortion,
   making it only the second region after Mexico City to permit the
   procedure.

   Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador earlier this month sent a
   bill to the federal Congress that would, if approved, grant an amnesty
   to women serving jail terms for what is considered a crime in all
   states but Oaxaca and the capital.

   The country's state Congress is dominated by his leftist National
   Regeneration Movement though lawmakers from different parties have
   signaled they would support the bill.

   Conservative Catholic country

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