MEXICO – The Oaxaca Congress makes history: legalising abortion in the first trimester

MEXICO – The Oaxaca Congress makes history: legalising abortion in the first trimester

Oct 4, 2019
by International Campaign for Women's Right to Safe Abortion

On 25 September 2019 Oaxaca became the second state government in Mexico to decriminalise abortion up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. The Federal District of Mexico was the first, in 2007. Previously, abortion was legal in Oaxaca only in cases of rape, fetal malformation, risk of death for the woman or if artificial insemination was not by consent.

The vote was 24 in favour and 10 against. The outcome of the vote was apparently uncertain until the last minute, because even though the legislature has a majority of leftist Morena party members, not all of them supported the bill. But working closely with allies in Oaxaca over the past year, the bill’s supporters never gave up.

Continued: https://www.safeabortionwomensright.org/mexico-the-oaxaca-congress-legalise-abortion-in-the-first-trimester/