Top Mexican court decriminalizes abortion nationwide

Mexico's Supreme Court on Wednesday decriminalized abortion across the conservative Latin American country. The court said on social media "that the legal system that penalizes abortion in the Federal Penal Code is unconstitutional, since it violates the human rights of women and people with the capacity to gestate."
It follows a similar Supreme Court ruling two years ago that abortion was not a crime, de facto authorizing it throughout Mexico. That declaration followed a constitutional challenge to the penal code of the northern state of Coahuila, opening the way for women across the country to access the procedure without fear of prosecution.

The Information Group on Reproductive Choice (GIRE), which campaigns for abortion rights, welcomed the latest step decriminalizing abortion at the national level.