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Mexico’s supreme court has decriminalized abortion across the country, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state.

That earlier ruling had set off a grinding process of decriminalizing abortion state by state. Last week, the central state of Aguascalientes became the 12th state to decriminalize the procedure. Judges in states that still criminalize abortion will have to take account of the top court’s ruling.

The supreme court wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that it had decided that “the legal system that criminalized abortion in the Federal Penal Code is unconstitutional, [because] it violates the human rights of women and people with the ability to gestate.”

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[–] cogman@lemmy.world 172 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Pretty crazy. Mexico has traditionally been VERY catholic. The fact that it has become more progressive than the US on women's rights really speaks volumes about how terrible the US has become.

I suspect a LOT of abortions happening down in the west texas town of el paso.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 75 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretty crazy. Mexico has traditionally been VERY catholic. The fact that it has become more progressive than the US on women’s rights really speaks volumes about how terrible the US has become.

In some ways it might be about sending a clear signal that they arent interested in following the political or cultural leadership of the US.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Fuck. You mean trump actually made [North] America great again?

[–] HoustonHenry@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Nonono, in SPITE of! 😆

[–] Aarrodri@lemmy.world 57 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They also legalized same sex marriage a while ago. Yes they are religious but they are not "bible belt fundamentalists".. there is also universal healthcare. Did you know several American doctors go study there and just come back to pass the exams? Mexico had it's problems but it's not as bad as they make it seem here. Most immigrants that come here are at the bottom of the barrel of the economical scale.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It seems even the pope is more progressive than American right now.

[–] BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Legitimately wild for the Pope to point blank call the US regressive.

Not out of hypocrisy (though, yeah - solidarity with survivors and the colonised) - but because he was actually really justified in what he said to reach that.

Wild. Absolutely wild. The US is so comically bad faith a society even the pope can eloquate why it's awful.

[–] TwoGems@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Because like 40% of our people are literally insane and living in a different reality

[–] Marsupial@quokk.au 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The pope doesn’t do shit agains his organisations centuries long paedophilia problem.

Not even the US is that bad.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

You don't have to literally be a pedophile to be truly truly terrible, there's lots of ways to be that.

That is to say, that does not excuse anyone. "At least we didn't fuck children" is not a defense or an excuse. The deeper right wing in the US still utter scum that needs to be shown the door and then have a fence built after them (and make them pay for it!) to make sure they don't come back. Independent of whether the vatican state tried to cover up the church's massive and systemic pedophilia.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

The sbc has a vastly worse pedophilia problem, has for decades, but they can cover it up well because they drive the girls to suicide because nobody would ever believe a good man like their daddy touched them there.

[–] Naminreb@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

Mexico’s constitution always allowed for abortions in cases of rape or danger to the mother or fetus.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Well, most Americans are progressive on the issues, including abortion, but due to absurd things like the Electoral College, and the way our power is distributed through states and the way in which rural areas have much more influence than they should, conservatives are given way too much power in relation to their numbers.

[–] dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

But without that, the majority would be tyrants!

But... But democracy. And the land of the free! Say it ain't so...

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh please, if we didn't have the electoral college the south wouldn't be able to serve as the moral compass of the country and couldn't guide us away from such evils as slavery and racism.

[–] ronalicious@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

did you fall in love with a Mexican girl?