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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.”

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 82 points 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.

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Fuck. You mean trump actually made [North] America great again?

[-] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Mexico is finally gonna pay for the wall. The wall to keep fleeing Americans out of Mexico.

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

How many Ds in those chess? We may never know...

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Now we just need a wall on Kentucky's border with Tennessee.

[-] HoustonHenry@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nonono, in SPITE of! 😆

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