Mexico City legalizing abortion?

Lawmakers started hearings recently on a proposal to legalize abortion in Mexico City.

The city’s Legislative Assembly is not scheduled to vote until mid-April, but passage seems likely. Mexican feminists say the legalization of abortion in this city of 8 million would be a landmark for the Latin American women’s movement.
“We’ve been working for this day for 36 years, and it’s almost here,” said Marta Lamas, one of the nation’s leading feminists and founder of the nonprofit Reproductive Choice Information Group.

Illegal abortion is a widespread problem in Mexico–and much of Latin America–and if this proposal passes, it would allow women to travel to the city to obtain safe, legal abortions. Fingers crossed.