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Agnès Guillaume

Mexico’s Reversal of Abortion Rights

by Susana Lerner, Lucía Melgar and Agnès Guillaume

In 2007, Mexico’s Federal District (Distrito Federal, recently renamed Mexico City) legalized abortion in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy – a victory for civil society, which had been fighting since the 1990s to give women the right to choose. In most of Mexico, however, restrictions on abortion have been tightened. Since 2008, new legal and constitutional reforms seeking to “protect life from the moment of conception”...

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