Abortion is legal in Mexico City but questions and critics remain

The San Diego Union-Tribune reports:

Abortion foes vowed Saturday to print posters bearing the names of Mexico City lawmakers who voted to legalize the procedure while uncertainty lingered over whether doctors at city-run hospitals could refuse to perform them.

Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said that doctors at city-run hospitals could not refuse to perform the procedure because of moral objections, apparently contradicting earlier statements by the city's health secretary....

The law, which was approved on Tuesday, applies only to city-run hospitals in Mexico City and would not require doctors in federal hospitals or private clinics to perform abortions. It opens the way, however, for private clinics to perform them.

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