Mexico City /
The Green Tide will flood the streets in Mexico this Saturday to ask for legalization of abortion and that, in this way, women can decide about their maternity with freedom and without fear of dying.
This in a context where the termination of pregnancy It is surrounded by stigmas and prejudices that make it difficult for women to access this right even in states where it is decriminalized.
17 years ago abortion was decriminalized for the first time in the country, Mexico City became the first entity to allow women to decide about their maternity and since then 277,268 abortions have been performed until June 2024.
It is worth mentioning that none of the people who have accessed this procedure have died as a result of it, this is in accordance with the Capital Ministry of Health.
Regarding this, in 19 percent of the cases, the pregnancy is terminated in the seventh week of gestation of the product, which allows the ILE to have been given mostly by medications, which is a lower risk and less invasive option as in the case of instrumented uterine curettage which has been used in 3,044 cases.
But despite the fact that the capital set a precedent that would lead to abortion being decriminalized in 2019 Oaxaca and later between 2020 and 2024 entities such as: Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Coahuila, Colima, Aguascalientes, Hidalgo, Puebla, Guerrero, Veracruz and Quintana Roo will be added. The reality is that these states are far from having true access to this right.
In the case of Baja California, the group of companions ‘Las Borders’ has denounced that there are few public health centers that provide this service, in which many obstacles are put in place for women to do this procedure, even though it is permitted by law. any cause up to the twelfth week of gestation.
While, in Aguascalientes, just a few weeks ago the entity’s congress reduced the number of weeks to legally terminate a pregnancy from 12 to six, which leaves almost no possibilities for women who often find out that they are pregnant. between the fifth and sixth week of gestation, and under this change in the norm there is little time they have to think about this decision.
And in the case of Zacatecas, Jalisco, Nayarit and Yucatán where abortion was decriminalized through judicial means derived from the protection of various groups such as GIRE, this so far on paper has determined that the women They cannot be criminalized or denied service to terminate your pregnancy up to the twelfth week of gestation, however in reality, as there has not yet been legislation on the matter, these entities do not have the infrastructure to serve those who request it and many even delay or deny the delivery due to their own convictions. service.
Faced with this, although the organizations recognize the progress that has been made in Mexico in terms of sexual and reproductive health, They also consider that it is important to go out into the streets in this Global Day of Action for the Decriminalization of Abortion, so that not only is abortion removed from the penal codes, but so that the subject can also be talked about free of stigma and people can go to the authorities without fear of being judged. health institutions, which for many women are not a safe place during this process and they prefer to go to organizations that fulfill the requirements in this sense. State functions.
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