http://washingtontimes.com/world/20041023-112818-6356r.htm
By Elizabeth Bryant
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
MADRID — Since taking power six months ago, the leftist government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has floated a constellation of domestic initiatives aimed at transforming Spain from one of Europe's most conservative countries to one of its most liberal.
Many of the proposals, ranging from plans to legalize abortion and some forms of embryo research to easing divorce restrictions, have barely inched past talking points. But this month, Mr. Zapatero's Cabinet approved legislation to legalize same-sex "weddings." The Socialist-dominated parliament is expected to pass the bill early next year, which would make Spain only the third country, after the Netherlands and Belgium, to do so.