Even so, the law legalized abortions only in certain cases.

Companies doing business in Cuba say the law legalizes changes already under way.

The local legislature is set to vote on a law legalizing prostitution in the coming months.

Only three people are reported to have used the law legalizing assisted suicide since it survived a series of other legal challenges last fall.

This law legalizes the practice of abortion during the first 14 weeks of pregnancy.

In 2002, the Netherlands passed a law legalizing euthanasia including physician assisted suicide.

The first German law legalizing abortion in 1975 was declared unconstitutional because the court held that embryos had human dignity.