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Mandela signs abortion bill

Thursday 12 December 1996 00:02 GMT
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President Nelson Mandela has signed South Africa's new abortion bill, clearing the way for one of the world's toughest abortion laws to be replaced with one of the most liberal. The law gives girls of any age the sole right to decide whether to have an abortion.

Reuter - Johannesburg

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