MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Supreme Court threw out all federal criminal penalties for abortion Wednesday, ruling that national laws prohibiting the procedure are unconstitutional and violate women’s rights in a sweeping decision that extended Latin American’s trend of widening abortion access.
Some 20 Mexican states, however, still criminalize abortion.
After 40 years, the Supreme Court reversed its abortion decision, and we’re not going to stop until Mexico guarantees the right to life from the moment of conception."
Some American women were already seeking help from Mexican abortion rights activists to obtain pills used to end pregnancies.
Her state decriminalized abortion last year, but there are 22 open investigations against women accused of ending their pregnancies.
Persons:
—, “, Sen, Olga Sánchez Cordero, Irma Barrientos, We’re, ” Barrientos, we’re, Fernanda Díaz de, de León, Díaz de León, León, Roe, Wade, Marina Reyna, ”, Geoff Mulvihill
Organizations:
MEXICO CITY, Group, National Institute for Women, Twitter, Civil Association for, U.S, Supreme, Observers, Guerrero, Women, Associated
Locations:
MEXICO, “, United States, Mexico, Aguascalientes, America, Mexico City, Argentina, Colombia, Guerrero, Cherry Hill , New Jersey