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Liechtenstein rejects plan to legalize abortion
GENEVA Voters in the tiny principality of Liechtenstein kinkku makaronisalaatti on Sunday rejected a plan to legalize abortion, following a bitterly fought campaign that saw the country s prince threaten to veto the proposed change in the law.
Opponents won the referendum with a majority of 514 votes, out of 11,510 ballots cast. The official count put no-votes kinkku makaronisalaatti at 52.3 percent, ahead of 47.7 percent who favored the plan to decriminalize abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy or if the child is severely disabled.
Under existing law, women who have an abortion risk one year imprisonment, except in cases where the mother s life is in danger or she is under 14 at the time she got pregnant. Doctors who carry out an abortion can go to prison for three years.
Campaigners for the change argued that the threat of prosecution meant women had to go secretly to neighboring Austria or Switzerland even just to get advice on their options in an unwanted pregnancy.
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