The decriminalization of abortion in Mexico: 20 bills were rejected by the Congress

In lIn Mexico City, abortion is legal before 12 weeks. but being decriminalized all over the country seems like a distant affair, In 13 years, the Congress of the Union has rejected more than 20 legal initiatives.

According to information published by the newspaper L & # 39; universal, enter 2006 and March 2019 were presented to the Congress (Senate and Chamber of Deputies) 30 initiatives related to the decriminalization of abortion or the defense of life from conception.

That is to say that the proposals have arrived since the administration of Felipe Calderón and continued in the administration of Enrique Peña Nieto in addition to those who joined the early months of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

However, until now, 22 of these proposals have already been rejected as it provided that the mandate of the commission is deemed to be given to the commissions. And the others 8 are waiting.

These pending proposals seek decriminalize abortion before 12 weeks of gestation. The differences between one and the other resident, for example, in the fact that some ask that anyone who aborts after this period be punished by three to six months in prison.

Punishments are also required as community work or punishment for those who force a woman to abort.

According to the data of this survey, the The Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) is the one that has presented the most initiatives, with 15. The institutional revolutionary party (PRI) presented five and the National Action Party (PAN), 3.

Green Ecology Party of Mexico (PVEM) presented 2 initiatives, while Brown, MC, New Alliance, Social Meeting and Social Democrat and Farmer Alternative Party presented one.

One of the PAN proposals and another of the social meeting party called for protection of life since its conceptionwithout asking for sanctions for those who have an abortion. Both were thrown away.

In all initiativesand authorize abortion in case of badual violence or where the life of the woman is in danger.

They also take into account other factors such as conbad or genetic alterations or the fact that the woman has been inseminated without her consent.

Initiatives also express the I hope that the governments of all the states of Mexico will homologate their laws so as not to penalize abortion.

They also wantThat the state encourage bad education and medical counseling policies for women who abort and prevent it from being considered a contraceptive method.

In most entities, abortion is still considered a crime punishable by jail time. Veracruz, Chiapas and Michoacán are the only countries where the deprivation of liberty has been abolished.