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Monday, February 8, 2010
Abortion Stats
As a result of the abortion prohibitions passed around Mexico over the past several years, almost 60 women in just three states (Puebla, Veracruz, and Guanajuato) are in jail for violating the local laws.
2 comments:
jd
said...
Here I reveal my ignorance: why is that all the state laws needed to be changed? The SCJN upheld DF's law, but abortion was still illegal everywhere else, no? It's not like the Court legalized it nationwide. So why were all the changes necessary? Was abortion illegal but lacked criminal penalties before?
I believe the issue was that in most states it wasn't codified. In Coahuila, for instance, there were no abortion clinics, but if you found a friendly doctor willing to perform an abortion, there was no penalty. I also wonder if maybe anti-abortion advocates also wanted to use the state laws as a dry run on a constitutional amendment.
[I'm still not over last night, I can't muster a response without crying on my keyboard]
2 comments:
Here I reveal my ignorance: why is that all the state laws needed to be changed? The SCJN upheld DF's law, but abortion was still illegal everywhere else, no? It's not like the Court legalized it nationwide. So why were all the changes necessary? Was abortion illegal but lacked criminal penalties before?
Unrelatedly, who dat.
I believe the issue was that in most states it wasn't codified. In Coahuila, for instance, there were no abortion clinics, but if you found a friendly doctor willing to perform an abortion, there was no penalty. I also wonder if maybe anti-abortion advocates also wanted to use the state laws as a dry run on a constitutional amendment.
[I'm still not over last night, I can't muster a response without crying on my keyboard]
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