Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico decriminalizes abortion throughout the country

The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) determined this Wednesday to decriminalize the abortion at the federal level in Mexicoaccording to a message posted on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

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the highest court “resolved that the legal system that penalizes the abortion in it Federal penal codesince it violates the human rights of women and people with the capacity to gestate”.

In a previous step, exactly two years ago, the SCJN determined that penalizing abortion it was unconstitutional, which opened the way for the unanimous ruling on Wednesday.

He abortion volunteer has been decriminalized in at least 11 of the 32 states that make up Mexico.

The capital government of the Mexico City it was the first Latin American jurisdiction to authorize it in 2007. Most allow it up to 12 weeks.

More than 80% of 130 million inhabitants of Mexico They are Catholic, so the magistrates’ decision is historic.

The ruling stemmed from a request by the Selected Reproduction Information Group (TURN).

“All women and people with ability to gestate will be able to access abortions in federal health institutions”, he celebrated in a statement TURN.

Source: Elcomercio

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