2023-09-06 20:46:00
MEXICO CITY.- The Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico decriminalized abortion throughout the country on Wednesdaytwo years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in a northern state.
That previous ruling had launched a state-by-state abortion decriminalization process. Last week, Aguascalientes, in the center of the country, became the twelfth state to decriminalize the procedure. Judges in states that still criminalize abortion will now have to take into account the judgment of the highest court.
In this Sept. 28, 2020 file photo, a woman holds a banner reading “Legal, Safe and Free Abortion” as abortion rights activists demonstrate in front of the National Congress. The Mexican Supreme Court decriminalized abortion throughout the country on Wednesday, September 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
“The First Chamber of the Court resolved that The legal system that penalizes abortion in the Federal Penal Code is unconstitutionalgiven that violates the human rights of women and people with the capacity to gestate”, they published.
The ministers of the Court approved unanimously an amparo that annuls the section of the Federal Penal Code that criminalized abortion.
The court’s sweeping decision comes amid a trend in Latin America to relax restrictions on abortion, even as access has been limited in some parts of the United States.
Mexico City was the first Mexican jurisdiction to decriminalize abortion 15 years ago.
The Information Group for Chosen Reproduction (GIRE) said the court decided that the part of the federal penal code that penalized abortion no longer has effect.
“No pregnant person, nor any health worker may be punished for abortion”, the NGO said in a statement.
The impact also means that the federal public health service and any federal health institution must offer abortion to anyone who requests itsaid TURN. The court ordered that the crime of abortion be removed from the federal penal code.
Two years ago, the Supreme Court of Justice had annulled several articles of a law in the northern state of Coahuila in which abortion was considered a crime and criminalized both women and personnel who could help them, which represented a great advance in the struggle of Mexican women to decriminalize abortion.
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