US EditionCourt Endorses Decriminalizing Abortion in Tlaxcala: What Is Known About the Amendments to the Health Act?
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The Supreme Court strengthened the protection of the right to health and access to legal termination of pregnancy by decriminalizing abortion in Tlaxcala.
The Court's decision guarantees immediate access to medical services, emergency contraception and legal termination of pregnancy, without legal requirements or authorizations. The post The Court invalidates legal provisions that obstructed access to abortion in Tlaxcala first appeared on SinEmbargo MX.Read the full text in sinembargo.mx
Mexico City Disinform ourselves. The decriminalization of abortion in Tlaxcala was approved on Tuesday by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), which invalidated the norms of the Penal Code and the State Health Law that criminalized and restricted the legal interruption of pregnancy. “The decision, adopted unanimously, is of significant relevance for reproductive justice, since it invalidates the provision that in the local Penal C…
The Criminal Code of Tlaxcala also punished those who provided them with medical care for abortion with imprisonment. By Ignacio García Unanimously, the ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) approved the decriminalization of abortion in Tlaxcala, after punishing women and pregnant women victims of sexual violence who interrupted their pregnancies without prior authorization from the Public Prosecutor's Office. According …
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) decriminalized abortion in Tlaxcala with the invalidation of several articles of the Health Law of that state that conditioned medical care to the authorization of a Public Prosecutor's Office (MP). Unanimously, the nine ministers invalidated article 44 Bis, added in 2007, which made the termination of pregnancy in public institutions subject to an authorization of the MP. They also invalidated t…
The decision obliges the health institutions of Tlaxcala to provide immediate care without conditions in cases of sexual violence, and eliminates the criminalization. Aldo Canedo OEM-Reportex The plenary of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) annulled part of the regulatory system of the Criminal Code of the State of Tlaxcala that punished and limited the termination of pregnancy, thereby decriminalizing abortion in that entity an…
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