Mexico Supreme Court decriminalizes abortion
Gabrielle M. Etzel
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Mexico‘s Supreme Court deemed all federal penalties for abortion unconstitutional, announcing the controversial decision in the predominantly Catholic country in a social media post on Wednesday evening.
The court’s First Chamber issued a ruling saying that the federal criminal code that penalizes abortion “violates the human rights of women and persons with the capacity to gestate.”
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The ruling responds to legal challenges regarding three statutes in the Mexican criminal code that sanction women who choose abortion, health professionals who perform abortions, and those who pressure pregnant women to abort.
Although the ruling does not automatically change the current federal statutes, it does obligate the Mexican legislature to re-evaluate the law and pass a constitutional alternative.
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The ruling, as of now, also only applies to the federal statutes against abortion. Some 20 states have criminalized abortion.
Planned Parenthood responded to the news on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, calling the decision “a huge win for the people of Mexico and the global sexual and reproductive health movement.”