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 LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Bishop Antonio Montes Moreira compares abortion to the hanging of Saddam Hussein. Meanwhile, parish priest Tarsicio Alves warns worshippers they'll be automatically excommunicated if they vote "yes" in a referendum Sunday.
The heated passions aroused by a proposal to liberalize Portugal's abortion law are turning the vote into a closely run affair and a test of how much the 90 percent Roman Catholic country is changing.
Portugal has a liberal center-left government but is steeped in a conservative culture, and is among a dwindling number of European democracies that strictly limit abortion.
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