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Mexico’s Supreme Court votes to decriminalize abortion
By: Maria Verza - Brisbane Times News - 09-08-21
Re: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/wor...08-p58pqe.html

Mexico City: Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that it is unconstitutional to punish abortion, unanimously annulling several provisions of a law from Coahuila — a state on the Texas border — that had made abortion a criminal act.

The decision will immediately affect only the northern border state, but it establishes a historic precedent and “obligatory criteria for all of the country’s judges,” compelling them to act the same way in similar cases, said court President Arturo Zaldívar.

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A woman holds a banner reading, in Spanish, “Legal, safe, and free abortion, legalise and decriminalise abortion now, for the independence and autonomy of our bodies,” as abortion-rights protesters demonstrate in front of the National Congress in 2020.CREDIT:AP

“From now on, you will not be able to, without violating the court’s criteria and the constitution, charge any woman who aborts under the circumstances this court has ruled as valid.”

Those circumstances will be clarified when the decision is published, but everything points to that referring to abortions carried out within the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy, the period allowed in the four states where abortion is already legal.

The decision comes one week after a Texas law took effect prohibiting abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity in the fetus. It allows any private citizen to sue Texas abortion providers who violate the law, as well as anyone who “aids or abets” a woman getting the procedure.

Only four Mexican states — Mexico City, Oaxaca, Veracruz and Hidalgo — now allow abortion in most circumstances. The other 28 states penalise abortion with some exceptions.

Mexico is a heavily Roman Catholic country. The church was a powerful institution through colonial times and after Mexico’s independence, but a reform movement in the mid-19th century sharply limited the church’s role in daily life. Anticlerical efforts at times led to bloodshed, especially during the Cristero Rebellion from 1926 to 1929.

The topic still remains controversial in Mexico, however. The divide was on display on Tuesday as groups from both sides demonstrated outside the court.

In previous decisions, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of women who had been imprisoned or had their rights violated for abortions. But Rebecca Ramos, director of the nongovernmental reproductive rights group GIRE, said the latest case was the first time the justices debated the fundamental question of whether abortion should be considered a crime or not.

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Abortion-rights demonstrators protest during the “Day for Decriminalisation of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean” march in Mexico City in September 2020. CREDIT:AP

The decision “is a reflection of the historic fight of the feminist movement for legal, safe and free abortion,” GIRE said in a statement. “We hope that in the whole country women and people with the capacity to become pregnant have the conditions and the freedom to decide their reproductive destiny.”

Justice Margarita Ríos Farjat criticised those who she said trample on women’s rights under the banner of “pro-life.” She said women are labelled “ignorant” and “bad or egotistical, because good women complete the pregnancy and put the baby up for adoption.”

Ramos believes the decision will also lead state legislatures where abortion remains a crime to review their laws before facing legal action.

The decision could potentially open another option for Texas women seeking legal abortions. For years, some women in south Texas have crossed the border to go to Mexican pharmacies to buy misoprostol, a pill that makes up half of the two-drug combination prescribed for medical abortions.

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An activist against abortion places an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe alongside small, mock coffins at the entrance to the Supreme Court to protest a ruling on abortion in 2020.CREDIT:AP

Legal abortions could become accessible now along Mexico’s long shared border with Texas.

Justice Luis María Aguilar said, “Today banishes the threat of prison and the stigma that weighs on people who freely decide to end their pregnancy.”

AP

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Personal note: I've worked in Mexico off and on as our Snr. Field Mechanical & Rotating Equipment
Engineer in nuclear power, chemical, steel, ammunition & solar plants for my company years ago -
trouble shooting - installing or fixing equipment and training seminars.
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Mexico City is beautiful and I also went into their church of:
Our Lady of Guadalupe - one of the most beautiful churches I've been in.
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One of the locals told me the story about the meaning of the church and why it is decorated -
and the yellow flowers that are brought there. Really a magnificent town.
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Their main street I swear has six lines of traffic lanes for each side of their traffic on the main road running through the town.
Excellent restaurant's as well. There's also a volcano pretty close to Mexico City that rubbles every now and then as well.
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