{"id":230,"date":"2007-02-14T19:29:39","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T17:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2008-05-22T11:39:18","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T09:39:18","slug":"portugal-abortion-referendum-fails-government-moves-to-legalize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Portugal Abortion Referendum Fails, Government Moves to Legalize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>See also:<\/em> pre-referendum, <a href=\"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=211\">an open letter<\/a> regarding the issue (Romanian)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>February 12, 2007<\/em>: After a referendum on Portugal&#8217;s strict abortion laws failed due to low voter turn-out, the country&#8217;s Socialist government has announced that it will work to legalize abortion in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. Portuguese voters yesterday decisively voted to liberalize Portugal&#8217;s extremely strict abortion law, but the results were considered invalid because only 44 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot; for a referendum to be considered binding, at least half of the country&#8217;s eligible population must vote. Currently, Portuguese legislation allows for abortion only in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy if a woman&#8217;s health or life is at risk. Women pregnant because of rape may be considered for an abortion until the 16th week.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Marques Mendes, who heads the Social Democratic Party, remarked, &#8220;The will of the Portuguese must be respected,&#8221; the BBC reports, suggesting that opposition parties will not attempt to veto new legislation that would liberalize the country&#8217;s laws. Supporters of lifting the abortion ban cited over 23,000 illegal abortions performed yearly. Currently Portugal&#8217;s abortion practices are some of most restrictive in the European Union. &#8230; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/feminist.org\/news\/newsbyte\/uswirestory.asp?id=10149\">more<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feminist.org\/Global\/\">Global Feminist Daily Newswire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See also: pre-referendum, an open letter regarding the issue (Romanian) February 12, 2007: After a referendum on Portugal&#8217;s strict abortion laws failed due to low voter turn-out, the country&#8217;s Socialist government has announced that it will work to legalize abortion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/?p=230\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,9,41,8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodily-autonomy","category-critica-sociala","category-english","category-links","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fia.pimienta.org\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}