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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | August 2007 
Mexico City: Amnesty International Declares New Abortion Policy
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 |  | No church, no religion can impose its vision of the world in this city.
- Victor Hugo Cirigo |  | |
Amnesty International has adopted a new abortion policy. This was officially declared in the concluding meeting of its Mexico Mission in Mexico City. The reputed Human Rights organization has shed away its "neutral" stance on abortion and will from now onwards openly support its decriminalization and demand access to abortion in cases of rape, incest and danger for the mother's health or life. The policy change - already discussed in April 2007 - was supported by an overwhelming majority of national AI chapters.
Reacting to the announcement, the Vatican - traditionally a great supporter of AI - urged all Catholic organizations worldwide to withdraw all support for the Human Rights organization.
Mexico City was a suitable place for the declaration. Run by a local progressive government since 1997, this beleaguered island in the world's second largest Roman Catholic country has legalized abortion in last April - against massive pressure of the Church hierarchy.
"No church, no religion can impose its vision of the world in this city," said Victor Hugo Cirigo, leader of the local assembly that voted with great majority for a bill permitting abortion in the first three months. - Cirigo's Party of the Democratic Revolution is already preparing for another fight with the Roman Catholic Church: it is considering to legalize euthanasia.
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