It’s a victory for the Mexicans. On Wednesday, September 6, the Supreme Court declared it would decriminalize abortion throughout Mexico. Until now, abortion was authorized only in the capital of Mexico, and this since 2007, with different laws depending on the territories.
Therefore, the Mexican Supreme Court has decided that the “The legal system that criminalizes abortion in the Federal Penal Code is unconstitutional” because he ” violates the human rights of women and people of childbearing age ».
A first decriminalization in 2021
This decision has now been under consideration for two years, when in September 2021 the Supreme Court itself had already ruled that it was unconstitutional to penalize abortion. In doing so, the Court invalidated article of the penal code of Coahuila, one of the 32 states of the country, which provided prison sentence for women who voluntarily abort.
First of all, Faced with a refusal in health centers, Mexicans could seize a judge who does so ” THE power to order an abortion “, explained the constitutional lawyer then Alex Ali, Menze in an article by World.
Already decriminalized in several Mexican states
Abortion is already decriminalized in a dozen of Mexico’s 32 states. It all started in 2007, in the capital, Mexico City, the first territory in Latin America to authorize abortion.
Last June, the Supreme Court even ruled that women could do it challenge state laws that continued to criminalize abortion.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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