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.”

  • cogman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1711·
    1 year ago

    Pretty crazy. Mexico has traditionally been VERY catholic. The fact that it has become more progressive than the US on women’s rights really speaks volumes about how terrible the US has become.

    I suspect a LOT of abortions happening down in the west texas town of el paso.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      78·
      1 year ago

      Pretty crazy. Mexico has traditionally been VERY catholic. The fact that it has become more progressive than the US on women’s rights really speaks volumes about how terrible the US has become.

      In some ways it might be about sending a clear signal that they arent interested in following the political or cultural leadership of the US.

    • Aarrodri@lemmy.worldEnglish
      601·
      1 year ago

      They also legalized same sex marriage a while ago. Yes they are religious but they are not “bible belt fundamentalists”… there is also universal healthcare. Did you know several American doctors go study there and just come back to pass the exams? Mexico had it’s problems but it’s not as bad as they make it seem here. Most immigrants that come here are at the bottom of the barrel of the economical scale.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
      401·
      1 year ago

      It seems even the pope is more progressive than American right now.

      • BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        28·
        1 year ago

        Legitimately wild for the Pope to point blank call the US regressive.

        Not out of hypocrisy (though, yeah - solidarity with survivors and the colonised) - but because he was actually really justified in what he said to reach that.

        Wild. Absolutely wild. The US is so comically bad faith a society even the pope can eloquate why it’s awful.

        • TwoGems@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          1 year ago

          Because like 40% of our people are literally insane and living in a different reality

        • Klear@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          It boggles my minds that in the USA the catholics are considered the reasonable christians.

      • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
        54·
        1 year ago

        The pope doesn’t do shit agains his organisations centuries long paedophilia problem.

        Not even the US is that bad.

        • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          1 year ago

          You don’t have to literally be a pedophile to be truly truly terrible, there’s lots of ways to be that.

          That is to say, that does not excuse anyone. “At least we didn’t fuck children” is not a defense or an excuse. The deeper right wing in the US still utter scum that needs to be shown the door and then have a fence built after them (and make them pay for it!) to make sure they don’t come back. Independent of whether the vatican state tried to cover up the church’s massive and systemic pedophilia.

        • InvertedParallax@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          The sbc has a vastly worse pedophilia problem, has for decades, but they can cover it up well because they drive the girls to suicide because nobody would ever believe a good man like their daddy touched them there.

    • Naminreb@kbin.social
      14·
      1 year ago

      Mexico’s constitution always allowed for abortions in cases of rape or danger to the mother or fetus.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      Well, most Americans are progressive on the issues, including abortion, but due to absurd things like the Electoral College, and the way our power is distributed through states and the way in which rural areas have much more influence than they should, conservatives are given way too much power in relation to their numbers.

      • InvertedParallax@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Oh please, if we didn’t have the electoral college the south wouldn’t be able to serve as the moral compass of the country and couldn’t guide us away from such evils as slavery and racism.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      111·
      1 year ago

      Catholics might be against abortion, but they are no where near as vocal as some other Christian sects in the US.