Two pieces of good news today serve as reminders that while in America women might be fighting a rearguard action to protect rights to their bodies they have had for decades, there are advances being made in other parts of the world.
In Mexico City, a woman will now be able to legally have an abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. This should cut the number of illegal, and hence unregulated and potentially dangerous, abortions now carried out in Mexico, estimated at 200,000 a year, substantially.
And the Dutch government has lifted restrictions on the campaigning abortion ship credited with helping to change Portugese law.
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