The doubts hovering over post-referendum Portugal

For Manuel Queiroz, the legalisation of abortion should be accompanied by a call for responsability. On Sunday, February 11th, "The Portuguese answered 'yes' in the referendum on the liberalisation of abortion in the ten first weeks of pregnancy and it is right for democracy to be applied on this subject. Even if the 50 % of the electorate required for the referendum to be binding did not vote. The 'yes' federated the idea of decriminalisaing women. By simplifying the message, the answer became indisputable. Now the law remains to be passed - which may be complicated. Subsequently the new reglementation needs to be put into practice, resolving the problems left without solutions during the campaign: who will pay, how will the hospital system work and, above all, what message are we going to send young people about their sex lives given the sub-text of permissiveness that we have conveyed ?"

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