Mexico CityMexico's Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that penalizing termination is unconstitutional, successful a determination expected to acceptable precedent for the ineligible presumption of termination nationwide.
"Today is simply a historical time for the rights of each Mexican women," said Supreme Court Chief Justice Arturo Zaldivar.
The tribunal ruled Tuesday against a instrumentality successful the authorities of Coahuila, which threatened women who acquisition abortions with up to 3 years situation and a fine.
The law, according to Coahuila Penal Code Article 196, allowed prosecution of some a pistillate seeking an termination and the idiosyncratic who "causes her to person an termination with her consent."
"I'm against stigmatizing those who marque this determination [to acquisition an abortion] which I judge is hard to statesman with, owed to motivation and societal burdens. It shouldn't beryllium burdened arsenic good by the law. Nobody gets voluntarily large reasoning astir getting an termination later," said Supreme Court Justice Ana Margarita Ríos Farjat, 1 of lone 3 women among the court's 11 justices.
The apical court's determination against specified penalization is "a historical step," Justice Luis Maria Aguilar said.
"Never again volition a pistillate oregon a idiosyncratic with the capableness to transportation a kid beryllium criminally prosecuted," helium added. "Today the menace of imprisonment and stigma that measurement connected radical who freely determine to terminate their gestation are banished."
Elsewhere successful Latin America, Argentina's Senate approved a measure to legalize termination successful December 2020. The Senate voted 38-29 to springiness millions of women entree to ineligible terminations nether the instrumentality supported by President Alberto Fernández.
The ballot comes arsenic US states conscionable northbound of the borderline determination to restrict termination access, astir notably successful Texas.
Reporting by CNN's Karol Suarez successful Mexico City and Sharif Paget successful Atlanta.
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