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Spain's abortion law reform faces opposition

June 2, 2009
Daniel Silva, AFP

Plans for a sweeping reform of Spain's abortion law ran into trouble Monday as polls showed strong opposition to a proposal to allow girls as young as 16 to end a pregnancy without parental consent.

Sixty-four percent of those surveyed in a poll for El Pais daily oppose the measure included in the proposed shake-up of Spain's abortion law unveiled by the government last month.

Among supporters of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's Socialists, 56 percent said they opposed the move, according to the Metroscopia poll of 1,000 people carried out for the left-wing paper on May 27 and 28.

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