English-speaking, Texan and from vulnerable backgrounds: The Americans still accessing abortion thanks to Mexican feminists

Several studies put a face to the women who were denied the right to end a pregnancy after ‘Roe v. Wade’ was overturned

Roberto González
SEP 27, 2026

The year 2023 was pivotal for understanding the effects of abortion restrictions in the United States. A year earlier, in June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the decision known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (JWHO), which overturned the abortion-rights protection established by a previous ruling from 1973: Roe v. Wade. Since then, thousands of American women have ended pregnancies with help from Mexican feminist collectives. Several recent studies put a face to those seeking abortions: a large share come from states such as Texas, where abortion is banned, and live in neighborhoods with high levels of poverty.

Continued: https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-09-27/english-speaking-texan-and-from-vulnerable-backgrounds-the-americans-still-accessing-abortion-thanks-to-mexican-feminists.html

Mexico – Abortion in Jalisco: a tangible reality

Sep 25, 2026

Since October 2024, abortion has been decriminalized in Jalisco; however, despite the progress, many challenges still exist regarding this public health issue.

The decriminalization of abortion in Jalisco, approved in October 2024, brought with it a significant advance in the reproductive rights of women and pregnant people. One of these was the recent opening of the first private clinic for the termination of pregnancy which allows women and people who need it to have a safe abortion without having to travel to other places, such as Mexico City.

Despite a healthcare system working against them
The Coordinator of Medical Specialties of Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud (CUCS), of the UdeG And specialist in gynecology and obstetrics, Dr. Eva Elizabeth Camarena Pulido, defines abortion as "the termination of pregnancy, whether spontaneous or induced, when the product of gestation is less than 22 weeks, or weighs less than 500 grams."

Continued: https://www.udg.mx/en/index.php/noticia/aborto-en-jalisco-una-tangible-realidad

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The 12-week abortion myth blocking reproductive care across Latin America

There is no scientific reason for time limits on abortion – so why are they used to deny vulnerable people healthcare?

By Angelina de los Santos, Open Democracy
August 05, 2026

Four years ago, a 17-year-old arrived at a hospital in Mexico seeking an abortion. She had been raped and forced to flee to the mountains by an organised crime gang, and was the sole carer for her sister, who lived with mental health conditions.

Under Mexican legislation, the teenager was allowed an abortion, which has been legal in cases of sexual or domestic violence since 2009. But the primary healthcare centres that had previously treated her did not offer a termination, and by the time she reached the hospital, she was at an advanced stage of pregnancy and doctors refused to provide one.

Continued: https://www.opendemocracy.net/abortion-mexico-latin-america-12-week-time-limit-myth-science-law-autonomy/

Purple Smoke Fills Streets as Activists Target Mexico’s Abortion Law

Video – 6:48 minutes
Apr 29, 2026

Feminist activists gathered outside the Congress of Mexico City to mark the 19th anniversary of partial abortion decriminalisation, demanding the complete removal of abortion from the penal code. Protesters used purple smoke flares, chants, and symbolic actions, including breaking a piñata representing the penal code, as part of their demonstration.

Speaking during the rally, activists from the Information Group on Chosen Reproduction (GIRE) argued that abortion should be treated as a healthcare service rather than a criminal offence. They warned that restrictive laws continue to undermine reproductive rights and bodily autonomy across the region, calling on Latin America to defend the right to choose amid concerns of a broader rollback of abortion access.

Abortion is currently legal in Mexico City within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, but remains restricted beyond that period except under specific circumstances such as rape or health risks.

Continued: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBc8b-dB2i0

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Two Neighbours, Two Courts, One Paradox: Abortion Rights in the US and Mexico

By Devashri Awasthi, McGill International Review
Mar 21, 2026

In September 2021, Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) unanimously declared criminalizing abortion unconstitutional. Nine months later, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade (1973). The irony is striking: Mexico—commonly perceived as conservative and overwhelmingly Catholic—expanded abortion rights through judicial reasoning, while the United States—long self-identified as a global rights leader—restricted access through partisan judicial maneuvering. Two neighbouring Christian-majority countries with politically compromised judiciaries reached diametrically opposite conclusions on closely related constitutional questions.

Taken together, these rulings pose a clear comparative puzzle. Holding religion constant and treating politics as the product rather than the cause, analyzing this outcome centres on judicial interpretation, social movements, and international human rights uptake as the channels through which the bounds of the decision were set.

Continued: https://www.mironline.ca/two-neighbours-two-courts-one-paradox-abortion-rights-in-the-us-and-mexico/

“We will continue to move forward. There is no turning back”

By Guillermina Edith Juárez Leyva, human rights defender from Oaxaca, Mexico
6 March 2026
(for Amnesty International)

My name is Guillermina Edith Juárez Leyva and I am a Zapotec woman from Oaxaca, Mexico. I am the founder and legal representative of Mano Vuelta AC, an organization of indigenous and Afro-Mexican women who work for human rights from an anti-racist and intercultural perspective.

The name of our organization, Mano Vuelta, is inspired by an ancestral form of community organization that promotes work and sharing for the common good. If I plant corn and need help, I can ask for it and then in return I help others with my work. These practices have sustained the lives of our communities since ancient times. This is also how we see the work of providing access to abortion.

Continued: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2026/03/we-will-continue-to-move-forward-there-is-no-turning-back

Mexico’s abandoned newborns: A tragedy driven by lack of sex education and the criminalization of abortion

At least eight cases in the last seven months have highlighted a structural problem, one that has been magnified by mass media and social media, without a proper analysis of its underlying causes

Mónica Juárez, Andrés Rodríguez
OCT 03, 2025

The scene was recorded by a security camera and broadcast throughout Mexico. In the Industrial neighborhood — in the Gustavo A. Madero borough of Mexico City — a car parked on the sidewalk. A woman got out of the vehicle, pulled down her pants, and squatted down. Within minutes, she gave birth to a baby girl, whom she left on the street. She then got back in the vehicle and was driven away.

A cyclist who was passing by — upon hearing the newborn’s cries — alerted the Ministry of Citizen Security. Officers rushed to the scene and took the newborn into protective care.

Continued: https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-10-04/mexicos-abandoned-newborns-a-tragedy-driven-by-lack-of-sex-education-and-the-criminalization-of-abortion.html

Inside Mexican Feminists’ Fight For Safe and Legal Abortion

Rebecca Grant on the Battle for Reproductive Freedom in Latin America and Throughout the World

By Rebecca Grant
June 24, 2025

Abortion had been a federal crime in Mexico since 1931, but every state within the country permitted abortion for pregnancies that resulted from rape, and others allowed it if the life of the mother was in danger or in the event of severe fetal anomalies. So when the legislature in Guanajuato, a state in central Mexico, proposed in 2000 to revoke the lone exception to the state’s abortion ban, Verónica “Vero” Cruz thought something along the lines of “Oh hell no.” Eliminating the provision would have resulted in a total ban in a place plagued by sexual violence, and Cruz, a respected activist and the leader of Las Libres, a recently formed feminist collective in Guanajuato, was not about to let the meager sliver of abortion rights that existed in her state shrink any further, or women’s well-being to be used as a political pawn. Something had to be done.

Continued: https://lithub.com/inside-mexican-feminists-fight-for-safe-and-legal-abortion/

Vital abortion-related content is apparently being blocked by Meta – potentially putting women at risk

The tech company, which owns Facebook and WhatsApp amongst others, has reportedly blocked or limited access to abortion providers
By Kimberley Bond

22 May 2025

The tech giant Meta has been accused by abortion providers of limiting their content in the US and Central America.

MSI Reproductive Choices (an international non-government agency that provides reproductive healthcare) and Plan C Pills (an information resource helping people with understanding safe, at-home abortions) claims Meta, which owns social media platform Facebook and messaging service WhatsApp, have censored their services.

The WhatsApp for Business account of the leading abortion provider in Mexico, Fundación MSI (part of MSI Reproductive Choices), has been suspended, which has led to an immediate 80 per cent drop in people booking appointments. WhatsApp was the primary channel for people seeking reproductive care, with MSI Reproductive Choices now fighting to get the platform reinstated.

Continued: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/body/health/a64849730/meta-block-abortion-content/

Yucatan Legalizes Abortion up to 12 Weeks: Landmark Decision!

Apr 10, 2025

Yucatan has become the 23rd out of 32 states in Mexico to decriminalize abortion up to 12 weeks of gestation. This move is seen as a significant step towards ensuring reproductive rights for women and those who can become pregnant.

On Wednesday, the Yucatan Congress voted in favor of the decriminalization, with 22 votes for and 13 against. The Women's Secretariat of the Government of Mexico hailed the decision as a "historic breakthrough in the fight for reproductive rights" in a social media post.

Continued: https://www.rivieramayanews.mx/yucatan-23rd-mexican-state-to-decriminalize-abortion-up-to-12-weeks/

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