The Supreme Court of Mexico decriminalizes abortion at the federal level, deeming all existing federal criminal penalties unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court of Mexico decriminalized abortion at the federal level Wednesday, deeming all existing federal criminal penalties for abortion in Mexico’s Federal Penal Code to be unconstitutional., approved by a three-vote majority, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation argued that the criminal penalties pertaining to abortion struck down by their ruling violated the human rights of women and “people with the capacity to gestate.
“Criminal provisions that absolutely criminalize the right to decide on the termination of a pregnancy are contrary to the rights to human dignity, reproductive autonomy and free development of the personality, the right to health and the right to equality and non-discrimination,” the ruling reads. The court instructed the Mexican Congress to repeal the norms contained in the nation’s Federal Penal Code that criminalize abortion. As a result of the ruling, Mexico’s federal public health service and all corresponding federal health institutions in the nation are required to offer abortion to anyone who requests it, and no medical personnel in the Central American nation may be prosecuted for providing abortion services.
“We wouldn’t have this ruling if we didn’t have the Coahuila one two years ago, but I would say that the one today has more reach, definitely in terms of access to abortion,” Isabel Fulda, GIRE’s deputy director,
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