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...Latin America's resurgent left has been a firebrand when it comes to battling poverty, promoting indigenous rights or bashing the U.S. But on one traditionally liberal cause - legalizing abortion - it has been remarkably meek...
...Abortion on demand, even in the first trimester of a pregnancy, is still illegal in all but three small countries in predominantly Roman Catholic Latin America (Cuba, Guyana and Barbados). In fact, abortion prohibitions in some countries there have gotten stricter - even in Nicaragua, where the former Marxist revolutionary Daniel Ortega recently became President again, but where the staunchly pro-life Catholic Church last fall influenced passage of the hemisphere's most draconian ban on abortion...
...largely in response to that unexpected stiffening of abortion laws, the first signs of a pro-choice movement are beginning to emerge in Latin America. And nowhere does it seem stronger than in Mexico, where this week a proposal to legalize abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy was introduced in the Mexico City Legislative Assembly - and has what most pundits call a good chance of passing...
...numbers are equally grim around impoverished Latin America, where the United Nations estimates more than 4 million clandestine abortions are performed each year, resulting in more than 5,000 women's deaths. Underground abortions are one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in Chile. Although Chile has one of South America's strictest anti-abortion codes, it's estimated to have twice as many abortions each year (200,000) as Canada - a country with twice Chile's population. (Abortion is legal in Canada.) As a result, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, a socialist, late last year sanctioned the free distribution...
...restaurant doesn't quite understand what a biscuit is (yes, Pollo's is fluffy, but it's hard on the outside, without even a faux butteriness), and the fries are dry and bland. Still, the chicken and the overall vibe are so right that if this is what Latin America thinks America is, then I can't understand why we're having so much trouble down there...