Excommunication in Mexico

If Rudy G. were a candidate in Mexico, it sounds like he might have more to worry about than Eduardo's and my disapproval!  According to this story: 

A leading Catholic official in Mexico said Wednesday that any lawmakers in the capital city's legislature that vote for a bill to legalize abortion there will be excommunicated when the first legal abortion is done. Both the city's legislature and the Mexican Congress are considering bills to allow abortions.

Bishop Marcelino Hernandez said the Church would not hold a ceremony or use any official procedure to kick the legislators out but explained that they would be essentially voting to remove themselves.

"The person excommunicates himself, it's not that the Church goes around with a rod, looking for people who make mistakes, in order to hit them on the head," Hernandez told reporters in a press conference, according to an AP report.