According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 800 women worldwide die every day from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Most of these deaths are preventable and a very large percentage correspond to women in vulnerable situations: rural, indigenous, Afro-descendant and poor. Direct causes of maternal mortality include eclampsia and preeclampsia, bleeding, infections and unsafe abortions. Many of these causes are related to lack of access to quality health services, which are associated with high health costs, poor care and equipment, and a shortage of qualified personnel. There are also structural barriers such as laws, policies and practices that perpetuate discrimination against women in the social, economic and family spheres. What they feared most happened and the U.S. Supreme Court passed the abortion rights ban. As of Friday night, at least seven states had condemned abortion, including Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and South Dakota. Five states — Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana — have passed laws banning abortions from six weeks — before many people even know they`re pregnant. Globally, six out of ten women of reproductive age live in countries where abortion is largely legal, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. While 30 states also allow abortion if the pregnancy is the result of reckless or culpable acts, with the exception of Nuevo León and Tabasco. ©Mexico is becoming a safe alternative for American women seeking abortions. The United States has already begun banning abortion.
It is therefore expected that states on the border will begin to receive so-called “abortion tourism”. Although since September 2021, the decriminalization of consensual abortion is effectively effective; Very few institutions, including permissive ones, have amended their codes to officially prohibit prison sentences, as stated by the SCJN. That is, sanctions are still included in the wording of the document, but they simply cannot be enforced. For this reason, the vast majority of institutions, including those that have carried out harmonization, continue to establish not only employees (when third parties who have some involvement, family, friends, acquaintances, neighbours or medical staff, nursing, midwives and midwifery services), but also pregnant women. Indeed, in companies carrying out voluntary abortion, the sanction could only be awarded if the interruption was carried out in accordance with the legal limit. Currently, only 6 local codes (4 permissive and 2 restrictive) comply with SCJN decision AI 148/2017 and do not impose custodial sentences on the surrogate, the employee or both. Almost all of them mention that the attempt can not be continued (if it causes damage to the pregnancy product or to the woman or pregnant person), it will be punished only if it is carried out. [29] In 2008, the SCJN declared it constitutional to decriminalize abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy in what was then the Federal District. However, the issue of abortion is not yet fully accepted by all citizens.
The main opposition comes from religious associations (especially the Catholic Church) and conservative political parties. [17] [18] In some respects, the cultural heritage of medieval Europe was not much different from that of pre-Hispanic Mexico. Thus, the new Spanish society is also misogynistic, although women`s living conditions may be slightly better depending on the ethnic group to which they belong. Contraception and abortion have been kept top secret, so their historical remnants are very thin or even erased. In any case, it is known that it has been practised by married, widowed and unmarried women; Whether it`s “decent families,” sex workers and even cloistered sisters. It has been used to “avoid shame and shame”, to father an illegitimate child and thus end up in a monastery, to avoid the need to marry during the fertilization of a “girl”, to avoid the separation of spouses in the face of evidence of adultery, to hide a violation of chastity, to cover up a sexual assault or simply as a therapeutic measure. It is believed that the term “bad birth,” which people sometimes used to refer to their offspring, acted as a euphemism for this procedure. The case reached the Supreme Court in September 2021 and ministers decided to strike down articles of Coahuila`s Penal Code that punished women, as well as those that prohibit a woman from accessing medical care and assistance to perform an abortion in the state. The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate in developed countries, and states with the most restrictive abortion laws already have higher infant and maternal mortality rates. That is why these new laws are the path of disaster for women`s health.
Last month, Chief Justice John Roberts said the U.S. is an international exemption to approve abortions when the pregnancy is already more than half its duration. He said the deadline puts the U.S. on an equal footing with North Korea and China. This restrictive trend has slowly changed as feminist collectives and pro-abortion organizations have been lobbying for several decades. The work of these actors has intensified to find allies in the institutions and authorities of the Mexican state. [16] On 7. In September 2021, the 11 ministers of the SCJN unanimously decided to decriminalize abortion across the country; That is, it is not a crime and it is forbidden to send to prison a woman who has decided to voluntarily terminate her pregnancy. The illegal status of abortion in the world is altered by the availability of pills that can terminate pregnancy. Historically, countries where abortion is not legal have tended to have high rates of unsafe abortions.
But abortion pills are safe and easy to carry. In the most effectively studied protocol, there are two drugs. But according to recent research, only one, misoprostol, a stomach ulcer drug on the World Health Organization`s list of “essential medicines,” induces a complete abortion about 80 percent or more of the time.