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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMexico's Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion
Mexicos Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion (NY Daily News)
Mexicos Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Tuesday that abortion is not a crime, declaring it unconstitutional to levy penalties around the medical procedure.
This is a historic step for the rights of women, Supreme Court Justice Luis Maria Aguilar told Reuters.
The ruling was in sharp contrast to neighboring Texas, whose law banning most abortions in the state went into effect last Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block it.
Texas law effectively outlaws abortions, sparking outrage from women and Democrats
Until now, in most of largely Catholic Mexico the only legal grounds for abortion was for pregnancy resulting from sexual violence, according to the Mexico Citybased pro-choice advocacy group GIRE.
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Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion (Original Post)
Passenger
Sep 2021
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AZSkiffyGeek
(10,803 posts)1. I'd wondered if Mexico would be an option for Texas women
I was shocked to see it was outlawed almost everywhere, including the Border states. Maybe this will change things. I can see clinics popping up.
CanonRay
(14,037 posts)2. Now if only one of those space jockey billionaires
would spend his daily chump change and build a nice modern women's health facility in Matamoros, and Reynosa, and Ciudad Juarez....
Passenger
(217 posts)3. Don't they already have them in California? n/t
CanonRay
(14,037 posts)4. Poor women in South Texas can't get to California
but they cross the border all the time.