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Abortion was established as illegal in Sebastian of Portugal's Regimento de Quadrilheiros (1570), during the Aviz dynasty period. [6] This law was then transposed, with little change, to Philip I of Portugal's Ordenações Filipinas, during the Iberian Union period. [6]
On 28 June 1998 a referendum on a new abortion law was conducted in Portugal; it was the second national referendum in the Portuguese history and the first after the 1974 Carnation Revolution.
An abortion referendum took place in Portugal on 11 February 2007, to decide whether to legalise abortion up to ten weeks. The referendum was the fulfillment of an election pledge by the governing Socialist Party of Prime Minister José Sócrates. [1]
Became the world's first country to make women's free choice to request an abortion a constitutional right in March 2024. Abortion rights, which have been legal since a landmark 1974 law, are more ...
Maria Teresa Cárcomo Lobo politician and jurist, became the first woman to hold office in Portugal. During the Estado Novo, an authoritarian political regime which was in place in Portugal from 1933 to 1974, women's rights were still restricted. In the 1933 Portuguese constitutional referendum women were allowed to vote for the first time in ...
Energized by a perfect record on ballot measures in the midterms, abortion-rights groups are setting their sights on more initiatives in 2023-2024.
Portugal is one of the five countries that best protect workers' rights, indicates a study released by Binghamton University in New York State. U.S. study: Portugal in world top five for best ...
After the decriminalisation of homosexuality there was an emergence of LGBT organisations and gay rights groups in the 1990s in Portugal. [17] Since 1982 Portugal progressed quickly in legal advances in protecting and upholding the rights of the LGBT community. It was in 2001 that they acknowledged civil unions for same-sex couples. [19]