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Mexico’s Supreme Court Votes to Decriminalize Abortion

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  1. Xerobull

    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    Remember when escaping from the US to Mexico in corny post-apocalyptical movies was a joke?

    Mexico’s Supreme Court Votes to Decriminalize Abortion
    The ruling sets a precedent for the legalization of abortion nationwide.

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    Women celebrated in June in the city of Pachuca after lawmakers in Mexico’s Hidalgo state voted to lift the penalties for elective abortion.Credit...Oscar Sanchez/Reuters


    By Oscar Lopez and Natalie Kitroeff

    Sept. 7, 2021Updated 4:16 p.m. ET
    MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that making abortion a crime was unconstitutional, setting a precedent for the legalization of abortion nationwide in a conservative Catholic country of about 120 million people.

    The unanimous ruling from the nation’s top court follows a growing women’s movement in Mexico that has repeatedly taken to the streets of major cities across the country, demanding greater rights and protections for women.

    “Today is a historic day for the rights of all Mexican women,” said Supreme Court Chief Justice Arturo Zaldivar after the decision was announced. “It is a watershed in the history of the rights of all women, especially the most vulnerable.”

    The decision makes Mexico the most populous Latin American country to allow abortion and comes at a moment when Texas and other American states have placed ever tighter restrictions on the procedure.


    The court said that a law in the northern state of Coahuila that mandates up to three years of jail for women who elect to have an abortion violated the Mexican Constitution.

    The decision can now be applied to the rest of the country, setting the stage for a nationwide legalization of abortion. Before the court weighed in, the procedure had only been legal in three of Mexico’s 32 federal entities: Oaxaca, Hidalgo and Veracruz, and in Mexico City.
     
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  2. Rocket River

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    Interesting for a heavily Catholic Country

    Rocket River
     
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  3. Jalen Green OnlyFan

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    The gangs around the border
     
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    Are you going to finish that thought?
     
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    There’s a lot going on, do you keep up with it?
     
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    leroy Contributing Member

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    You wrote an incomplete sentence with barely 1/2 a thought. What about the gangs around the border? What does that have to do with the actual topic of the thread?
     
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    The way these compadres are killing each other, it's just going to be all women in MX.
    Finishing Jalen's alley woops.
    =)
     
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  8. Jalen Green OnlyFan

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    Okay, so I guess you don't pay very close attention to it.... at all ...
     
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    So we should expect to see lots of Texans go south of the border in order to do abortions?
     
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    Gives a new meaning to the phrase anchor baby
     
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    That's a concern of mine. Be careful of hostages and gang activity as an attempt to make money in vulnerable areas
     
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    Drugs and abortions
    Sounds like good business to me Carlito
     
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    Typical GOP voter just stating what they want to but they really wanna say that Blacks and Mexicans are.
     
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    My ignore list is sure filling up fast today.
     
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    The good news is, most US pro-lifers are actually in favor of Mexican abortion rights, by some weird quirk of fate.

    @StupidMoniker back me up here.
     
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    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    Sorry, Sam. I don't favor abortion anywhere.
     
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    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    Looks like God is mad...

     
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    Maybe he’s mad that drake was dissing on Kanye
    @Jontro
     
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  19. SamFisher

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    ^unless the fetus was running from the cops
     
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    Fetuses are difficult to prosecute. They have airtight alibis, they haven't developed fingerprints or dental records, they all look the same. Not sure how else you make them pay, you know.
     
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