Decision to remove abortion from federal penal code comes amid trend in Latin America of loosening restrictions on procedure

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.”

  • psycho_driver@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1002·
    10 months ago

    Did y’all know that Mexico also has a form of universal healthcare. Pretty soon the flow of illegal immigrants might start going the other way.

    • Stern@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      10 months ago

      Lot of folks hop the border for a bit for the far cheaper dental care down there.

      • CADmonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        10 months ago

        I’ve heard of a lot of people doing this. Pretty bad when driving to an entire other country for dental care is cheaper.

          • ours@lemmy.filmEnglish
            7·
            10 months ago

            I’m picturing her going to Russia for cheaper healthcare. She did claim she could see Russia from her house.

            • SeaJ@lemm.ee
              English
              51·
              10 months ago

              That was Tina Fey. Palin said that you can see Russia from part of Alaska which is true since there are a couple islands that are like 10 miles away from some Russian islands. Saying that that gives you some sort of foreign policy experience is idiotic though.

        • Nastybutler@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          10 months ago

          Driving? Hell I had a coworker who would fly there from Alaska to get dental work done and even with his week long hotel stay while he recuperated still saved thousands of dollars

        • Tarzan9192@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          10 months ago

          I’ve done this with my wife. It saved us thousands of dollars. And the place was very clean and professional.

          • CADmonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            I’ve heard horror stories, ironically all from dentists in the US, about dentists in Mexico. But I hear a lot more stories like yours about how it was great, and they managed to save a ton of money.

            • Tarzan9192@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              I’m sure there are scammers, but my wife did a lot of research before we went. The dentist we went to in TJ actually got her degree in San Bernardino, CA like 40 mins from where we live. If you do your due diligence the process can go pretty smoothly, and yes, save a ton of cash.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      English
      26·
      10 months ago

      There is already a good amount of medical tourism to Mexico from the US.

    • Vox_Ursus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      10 months ago

      That said, the entire mexican public health service system is absolute shit, so much so that the president acknowleged it as recently a last year.

      • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        10 months ago

        so much so that the president acknowleged it

        Acknowledging it is the first step to improving it. We have Republicans who have the gall to claim that we have the best healthcare in the world.

        • Vox_Ursus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Completely agree. The fact they’re restructuring and allocating funds at least seems to suggest that they’re taking it seriously, and even if it’s baby steps, it’s something

      • Seytoux@lemmy.oneEnglish
        102·
        10 months ago

        Actually… No

        The facilities could use some work, yeah, red tape and waiting times are terrible, for sure, medicines availability, thanks for this president have been inconsistent as of late, yes

        But… thanks to the perks offered in the job, many of the best doctors and surgeons treat there, the ones that treat also in the expensive hospital are treating in the IMSS (name of the service), so yeah, great surgeons for free if you are willing to go through the long bureaucratic process.

        • Vox_Ursus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          I’ve indeed heard frequently that the best practitioners are found in the IMSS, although in my own experience, whether you have a good experience with the medical professionals and procedures is basically a coin toss, unless you have connections and are able to ask for someone in particular, or personally know one of the practitioners.