CHRISTIAN POST/ Ryan Foley-
Mexico’s highest court has declared abortion bans unconstitutional and ordered the legislature to change federal abortion laws to comply with its ruling.
In a statement Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Justice, Mexico’s equivalent of the U.S. Supreme Court, announced that “the legal system that regulates the crime of abortion in the federal criminal code is unconstitutional because it is contrary to the right to decide of women and people with the capacity to bear.”
Wednesday’s decision comes after “a civil association challenged the legal system of the Federal Criminal Code that criminalizes abortion and the medical personnel who practice it.”
The First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice agreed with the civil association that federal abortion laws violate “the right of women and people with the capacity to gestate to decide to interrupt or continue a pregnancy, which, in turn, is considered to violate the rights to free development of personality, to health, to equality and non-discrimination, and to reproductive autonomy.”
The decision, which calls on the Congress of the Union to repeal “the regulations that criminalize voluntary abortion,” is the latest development in lengthy litigation over Mexico’s abortion laws. Continue reading…
