In a strong reaffirmation of one of the hemisphere’s most lenient abortion laws, Mexico’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld legal abortion in the nation’s capital.
“To affirm that there is an absolute constitutional protection of life in gestation would lead to the violation of the fundamental rights of women,” said Justice Sergio Valls….
“The case is very significant for the possibility of continuing this trend in other states in the republic,” says María Consuelo Mejía, the director of Mexico’s Catholics for the Right to Decide. “The arguments and the way in which they defended women’s rights is very important, very symbolic.” …
Since taking effect, some 12,000 women have terminated their pregnancies in public hospitals in Mexico City, according to city statistics. Twenty percent of them are residents from outside the capital.
Source: Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor
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