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Proposes A Referendum On Abortion Held By Choice Of The Woman In The First Ten Weeks

Original Language Title: Propõe a realização de um referendo sobre a interrupção voluntária da gravidez realizada por opção da mulher nas primeiras dez semanas

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DRAFT RESOLUTION NO. 148 /X

Proposes to hold a referendum on voluntary termination of pregnancy

held by choice of woman in the first ten weeks

In the electoral programme of the Socialist Party, the following can be read:

" PS has on the plummeting of the Voluntary Interruption of Gravity a position

very clear. It has been six years since the referendum was held on this matter.

During these six years, the Country has seen a succession of women's trials by the

crime of abortion that confronted our society with an outdated and unjust law. The

PS takes commitment to raise a new referendum on plummeting

Voluntary Interruption of Gravity, in the terms previously submitted to the vote

popular, and will strive strikingly for its approval by the Portuguese ".

This text transited without any amendment to the XVII Government Programme

Constitutional.

In this way, it must be complied with what is an electoral commitment, but

also an imperative of conscience for many Portuguese and Portuguese. The

Socialist party has shown in a repeated manner the firm will to fulfill that

electoral engagement with the greatest possible urgency taking into account the framework

constitutional and legal vigour.

The question that best materializes the electoral commitment suffated by most of the

Portuguese is the one who has been subjected to popular vote for more than 8 years, in referendum

held on June 28, 1998. The realization of a new referendum that puts to the

electioneering the question of the 1998 referendum is, in addition to the more, a clear expression of the

strength of PS convictions on this theme. On the other hand, that question seems to take

advantage from the technical point of view on other hypotheses that were later

object of parliamentary debate.

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In these terms, the below-signed Deputies present the following project of

resolution:

The Assembly of the Republic resolves, in the terms and for the purposes of Articles 115 and

161 (j) of the Constitution, present to the S. you the President of the Republic a

proposal to hold a referendum in which the citizens electorate census on the

national territory are called upon to comment on the following question:

" Agrees to the plummeting of the voluntary termination of pregnancy, if

held, by option of the woman, in the first 10 weeks, in establishment

of legally authorized health? "

The Deputies of the Parliamentary Group of the Socialist Party