MEXICO CITY, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The Mexican Senate voted on Tuesday to allow terminally ill patients to refuse further treatment so they can die of their own choosing, in a new blow to the Catholic Church. Senators passed changes to an existing law that enable patients suffering incurable diseases and a life expectancy of under six months to sign a document before witnesses suspending treatment if medicines cannot provide a cure. The move was supported by the ruling conservative National Action Party, but will likely receive a strong opposition from Church leaders. In December of 2007, Mexico City's leftist-dominated Congress passed a similar law. Mexico is the world's second-largest Roman Catholic nation and the Church has opposed similar right-to-die legislation. Mexico City has become a vanguard of liberalism in Latin America by backing gay civil unions and the legalization of abortion last year. (Reporting by Adriana Barrera)
Children hold comic strips made by them as they take part in an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign outside a railway station in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata November 25, 2008. REUTERS/Parth ...
