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San Marino decriminalises abortion
By EUobserver
The European micro-state of San Marino voted to legalise abortions in a referendum Sunday in which 73 percent of people wanted to go ahead. "It's unacceptable to view as criminals women who are forced to have abortions," Francesca Nicolini, a doctor with the NGO the San Marino Women's Union, which initiated the plebiscite, said in the run-up. Abortions have been legal in neighbouring and also Roman Catholic Italy since 1978.