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Mexico confirmed this Wednesday its desire to decriminalize abortion nationally, two years after a first decision by the Supreme Court, going against the grain of its neighbor, the United States.
On September 7, 2021, the Mexican Supreme Court had already ruled that the criminalization of abortion was unconstitutional. In doing so, the Court invalidated the article of the Penal Code of Coahuila (one of the 32 states of the Federation) providing for a prison sentence for women who voluntarily abort.
Abortion is already decriminalized in a dozen of the 32 states that make up Mexico. It all started in 2007 in the capital Mexico City, the first jurisdiction in Latin America to authorize abortion.
In June, the Supreme Court ruled that women can challenge state laws that continue to criminalize abortion.
“All women and people capable of gestation will be able to have access to abortion in federal health institutions,” welcomed the Information Group for Selected Reproduction (GIRE).
