Health
The Mexican State of Oaxaca Decriminalizes Abortion
Becomes the second state or jurisdiction in Mexico to permit abortion for other cases besides rape.
The government of the southwestern Mexican state of Oaxaca decriminalized abortion on Wednesday, September 25, after the progressive liberal majority state legislature passed the bill with 24 votes in favor and 10 votes against it. The decriminalization law will permit medicinal and or surgical termination of an individual woman’s pregnancy up to 12 weeks.
Oaxaca becomes the second state or jurisdiction in Mexico to permit abortion for other cases besides rape after Mexico City legalized the reproductive medical procedure more than a decade ago in 2007. Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean Sea, abortion is fully legalized in only Cuba, Guayana, and Uruguay, which are governed by center-left and or left-wing governments. In most countries across the Americas, including Central and South America, abortion is either heavily restrictive or only permissible in cases of rape, incise, or endangerment of the women’s or fetus’s health.
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