If the proposal had passed on Wednesday, it would have rejected the threat of suicide as a legitimate danger to the mother's life.
Mr Yushchenko finally nominated Mr Yanukovich for the post of prime minister on Wednesday, two hours after a deadline for the proposal had passed.
This is the 33rd referendum since the 1937 Constitution was signed; 23 of the proposals have passed, and 9 have been rejected.
Once a $100 billion stimulus package was large, but now the stimulus proposals have passed through $300 billion to $500 billion on their way to infinity.
Mr Correa announced that the proposals had passed by an average margin of 7%, and celebrated with a song-and-dance routine.The first official results showed a much closer vote.
After those proposals had passed, scientific committees at the government-chartered Institute of Medicine and at the National Institutes of Health reported that there was little evidence that marijuana had medical usefulness, but that rigorous studies would be worthwhile.
In May, he told the Wichita Eagle that while he was pleased the two proposals had passed, he wanted to see the state's election laws made stricter by giving his office power to prosecute voter fraud.
Some advocates of overhauling the campaign finance system, a proposal that has passed the Senate but stalled in the House this month, are critical of Mr. Barbour's influence and his dual roles as lobbyist and official party fund-raiser.
The proposal which has passed in a late-night parliamentary session on 6 February makes it easier for government bureaucrats to censor the Internet.
People who have been briefed on the conference submissions say that not a single European government delegation has endorsed the telecommunications operators' proposal, and the European Parliament has passed a resolution denouncing it.
