Decision to remove abortion from federal penal code comes amid trend in Latin America of loosening restrictions on procedure

Mexico’s supreme court has decriminalized abortion across the country, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state.

That earlier ruling had set off a grinding process of decriminalizing abortion state by state. Last week, the central state of Aguascalientes became the 12th state to decriminalize the procedure. Judges in states that still criminalize abortion will have to take account of the top court’s ruling.

The supreme court wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that it had decided that “the legal system that criminalized abortion in the Federal Penal Code is unconstitutional, [because] it violates the human rights of women and people with the ability to gestate.”

  • Vox_Ursus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    1 year ago

    That said, the entire mexican public health service system is absolute shit, so much so that the president acknowleged it as recently a last year.

    • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      so much so that the president acknowleged it

      Acknowledging it is the first step to improving it. We have Republicans who have the gall to claim that we have the best healthcare in the world.

      • Vox_Ursus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Completely agree. The fact they’re restructuring and allocating funds at least seems to suggest that they’re taking it seriously, and even if it’s baby steps, it’s something

    • Seytoux@lemmy.oneEnglish
      102·
      1 year ago

      Actually… No

      The facilities could use some work, yeah, red tape and waiting times are terrible, for sure, medicines availability, thanks for this president have been inconsistent as of late, yes

      But… thanks to the perks offered in the job, many of the best doctors and surgeons treat there, the ones that treat also in the expensive hospital are treating in the IMSS (name of the service), so yeah, great surgeons for free if you are willing to go through the long bureaucratic process.

      • Vox_Ursus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’ve indeed heard frequently that the best practitioners are found in the IMSS, although in my own experience, whether you have a good experience with the medical professionals and procedures is basically a coin toss, unless you have connections and are able to ask for someone in particular, or personally know one of the practitioners.