21.   The report, which discusses various aspects of population development, outlined where abortions are permitted and where they are forbidden.

22.   The ruling also received guarded approval from groups linked to the Catholic Church, which fought hard against permitting abortion on demand.

23.   The ruling received guarded approval from groups linked to the Roman Catholic Church which fought hard against permitting abortion on demand.

24.   Voters went to the polls Sunday in a national referendum on whether to permit abortion on demand, a deeply divisive issue in this mostly Roman Catholic country.

25.   But if abortion was permitted, it should be medically safe, he stressed.

26.   The draft action plan says that in those places where abortion is permitted it should be medically safe and information and counselling should be available to women.