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A woman holds a banner reading: ‘Legal, safe, and free abortion, legalize and decriminalise abortion now, for the independence and autonomy of our bodies,’ as during a protest in front of the National Congress in Mexico City, in September 2020
MEXICAN women’s rights groups have hailed a historic victory after the country’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that it is unconstitutional to penalise abortion.
The ruling, which effectively decriminalises abortion at state level, follows years of campaigning by the women’s movement in Mexico.
The court unanimously overturned a law in Coahuila, a state on the border with the US state of Texas, that had made abortion a criminal act.
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
DAVID RABY explains the background of the recent upheavals in Mexico
Police guidelines suggesting home searches and digital checks for women who experience pregnancy loss under suspicion of having broken the outdated 1967 Abortion Act have sparked uproar, writes PEOPLES’ HEALTH DISPATCH