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MEXICO CITY (AP) - Senators from Mexico's largest leftist party on Tuesday sent a bill proposing to legalize abortion nationwide, a measure strongly opposed by the nation's conservative and Roman Catholic leaders.
Under the bill filed by the Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, the second-largest force in Congress, women would be able to have an abortion within the first three months of pregnancy. The bill also proposes that government health clinics provide women with abortions if they request them.
"We need to stop thousands of women from dying in unsafe operations," said Sen. Carlos Navarrete who heads the PRD in the Senate. "This is a right our laws should guarantee."
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