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Legalized Abortion In Mexico City Injects Religion Into Mexico's Political Debates
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April 12, 2010
| | Nationally, polls show that a majority of Mexican residents oppose legal abortion and same-sex marriage. | |
Although abortion- and gay-rights issues used to be politically "off limits" in Mexico, both topics have come to the political forefront since Mexico City began loosening some restrictions on abortion rights, same-sex marriage and adoption by same-sex couples, PRI's "The World" reports.
More than 90% of Mexican residents are Catholic, but the country has a "historically strong separation of church and state," according to "The World." The separation between the two spheres first began to blur with Mexico City's legalization of abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, "The World" reports. Mexico City is governed by the nation's leftist party, the PRD, which includes its mayor, Marcelo Ebrard.
Author and Mexico City resident David Lida said, "Certainly passing these laws gets [Ebrard] on the front pages of newspapers all over the world. And he is believed to have presidential aspirations for 2012."
Nationally, polls show that a majority of Mexican residents oppose legal abortion and same-sex marriage. Mexican President Felipe Calderon and his conservative PAN party also oppose abortion and gay rights.
Mexico's third major political party, the PRI, typically is considered a leftist party, "but its leader have been moving to the political center in their search for votes," according to the "The World." The party now campaigns to defend "family values" and the "right to life" (Stucky, "The World," PRI, 4/6).
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