San Marino Voters Overwhelmingly Back Legal Abortion

AP ^ | 9/26/21 | Nicole Winfield and Francesco Fedeli

[marshmallow]

SAN MARINO (AP) — San Marino residents on Sunday voted overwhelmingly to legalize abortion, rejecting a 150-year-old law that had criminalized it and making the tiny republic the latest majority Catholic state to approve the procedure under certain circumstances.

Some 77% of voters approved a referendum proposal calling for abortion to be legal in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, according to official returns broadcast on San Marino RTV. Abortion would also be legal beyond that point if the woman’s life is in danger or if her physical or psychological health is at risk because of fetal anomalies or malformations.

With the “yes” votes winning, San Marino’s Parliament must now draft a bill to legalize the procedure. Turnout for the referendum was 41% in the microstate of 33,000 people surrounded by Italy.

[Bayard]

San Marino is the worlds smallest republic, landlocked inside Italy.

It was also both a fascist republic state during pre-WWII and during the war. After the War it elected a communist socialist party and was run openly by socialists until the late 50’s.

[j.havenfarm]

Psychological health.” Your proverbial camels nose under the tent

[metmom]

Another country inviting the judgment of God on themselves.

I can’t see God withholding that judgment much longer what with the way the whole world is embracing abortion.

[keving]

I’m sure the African or Chinese immigrants would love to live, govern and destroy that place.

[whitney69]

I guess one person wrote the byline, and another wrote the article. They don’t match up. The byline is wrong and tells a totally different result.

wy69

[tflabo]

Aborting themselves right out of eternal Heaven in the process. Heaven is looking better all the time in comparison to this global toilet bowl of humanity.

[Republican Wildcat]

This is what happens if you pass laws, but fail to continue to teach the morality of why the law was passed to begin with.

[daniel1212]

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Real news, the devil is a murderer and hater of the innocent and a blasphemer who works to implicate the name of God with sin while making creation a god under dire threat and making the real sins of man to be that of offending nature while making saints out of those who sacrifice themselves to save it.