In Mexico, Powerful Forces Drive a Furious Debate Over Abortion
Catholic Church Fights Legislation
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, April 15, 2007

MEXICO CITY -- The young woman with the cascading curls walked into a dumpy house with no sign out front on the day she decided to get an abortion.

Inside, she says, she paid $200 for eight syringes filled with a milky liquid and a set of instructions. She spent the night in a Mexico City hotel room, giving herself injections that made her bleed and cry out in agony. the rest