Diesel europeu duplica de valor e ameaça afetar todos os preços

[trichas]

Em 1998 vinha em viagem do sul do país e não pude votar juntamnente com a minha familia. Hoje os mesmos 5 foram votar e todos "sim" por isso espero ter ajudado de alguma maneira a mudar a legislação para que o aborto clandestino diminua drasticamente!
Será que assim a abstenção vai rondar os 60%?

[Keyser Soze]

se não forem votar mais de 50% fica tudo na mesma, não é?

penso que é o mais provável, pelas 12.00, número oficiais indicavam que apenas 11% dos eleitores tinham ido votar

[Pataca]

Deve ser agora!
Se o sim ganhar, então seremos um país moderno!!!
Será que a modernidade de um país se mede pela legalidade de abortar, até quanto mais tarde melhor?

[Pata-Hari]

Portugal votes on abortion laws
POSTED: 1134 GMT (1934 HKT), February 11, 2007
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) -- Portugal is deciding in a national referendum Sunday whether to discard its strict abortion law and adopt a more liberal policy that would bring the country into line with most other European nations.

The center-left Socialist government wants to grant women the right to opt for abortion during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy.

Portugal, where more than 90 percent of people say they are Catholic, has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the European Union. Its legislation places it in a minority in the bloc with Poland, Ireland and Malta.
The procedure is allowed only in cases of rape, fetal malformation or if a mother's health is in danger, and only in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

In 23 other EU nations, abortion is permitted within much broader limits. Women can ask for abortions up to the 24th week of pregnancy in Britain and up to the 12th week in Germany, France and Italy.

The government has portrayed the ballot as a measure of Portugal's willingness to adopt more modern attitudes.

Its effort to change the law, though, has run into emphatic opposition from the influential Roman Catholic Church, which wants to keep the restrictions in place.

The single question on the ballot asks voters if they want to allow abortion up to the 10th week. Voters at more than 12,000 polling stations are to tick a box under "yes" or "no."

Recent opinion polls have indicated that a majority of Portugal's 8.9 million registered voters intend to approve the change.

However, a doubt remains over whether enough ballots will be cast to make the outcome binding.

1998 referendum
In a 1998 referendum on the same question, voters balked at making a choice and the ballot was declared void after fewer than the mandatory 50 percent-plus-one of registered voters turned out.

Anticipating a repeat of that result, Prime Minister Jose Socrates has said that if the turnout is too low to make the ballot binding but the "Yes" camp collects most of the votes cast he will use his party's majority in Parliament to push through legislation allowing abortion.

Socrates, a longtime campaigner for abortion rights, has called the current law "backward" and "a national disgrace."

He says women seeking to terminate their pregnancies simply travel to EU countries where it is legal, especially private clinics across the border in Spain, or resort to shady, back-street clinics at home.

He cites figures compiled by abortion rights groups -- and disputed by their opponents -- that around 10,000 women are hospitalized every year with complications arising from botched back-street abortions.

Women opting for illegal abortions risk up to three years in prison. However, none has ever been jailed, though doctors and nurses who assisted the procedure have.

The Catholic Church has not budged from its opposition to abortion, saying it goes against teachings on the sanctity of life.

Even if voters back the change, it could be several months before women can choose to terminate their pregnancies.

A bill would have to be voted on in Parliament and then go to the president for approval. It would come into force only when the new legislation is published in the public records -- a procedure which usually takes months.

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