Decision to remove abortion from federal penal code comes amid trend in Latin America of loosening restrictions on procedure

Mexico’s supreme court has decriminalized abortion across the country, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state.

That earlier ruling had set off a grinding process of decriminalizing abortion state by state. Last week, the central state of Aguascalientes became the 12th state to decriminalize the procedure. Judges in states that still criminalize abortion will have to take account of the top court’s ruling.

The supreme court wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that it had decided that “the legal system that criminalized abortion in the Federal Penal Code is unconstitutional, [because] it violates the human rights of women and people with the ability to gestate.”

  • Stern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    10 months ago

    Lot of folks hop the border for a bit for the far cheaper dental care down there.

    • CADmonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      10 months ago

      I’ve heard of a lot of people doing this. Pretty bad when driving to an entire other country for dental care is cheaper.

        • ours@lemmy.filmEnglish
          7·
          10 months ago

          I’m picturing her going to Russia for cheaper healthcare. She did claim she could see Russia from her house.

          • SeaJ@lemm.eeEnglish
            51·
            10 months ago

            That was Tina Fey. Palin said that you can see Russia from part of Alaska which is true since there are a couple islands that are like 10 miles away from some Russian islands. Saying that that gives you some sort of foreign policy experience is idiotic though.

      • Nastybutler@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        Driving? Hell I had a coworker who would fly there from Alaska to get dental work done and even with his week long hotel stay while he recuperated still saved thousands of dollars

      • Tarzan9192@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        10 months ago

        I’ve done this with my wife. It saved us thousands of dollars. And the place was very clean and professional.

        • CADmonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I’ve heard horror stories, ironically all from dentists in the US, about dentists in Mexico. But I hear a lot more stories like yours about how it was great, and they managed to save a ton of money.

          • Tarzan9192@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            I’m sure there are scammers, but my wife did a lot of research before we went. The dentist we went to in TJ actually got her degree in San Bernardino, CA like 40 mins from where we live. If you do your due diligence the process can go pretty smoothly, and yes, save a ton of cash.