ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 17, 2023 / 19:10 pm
In an Oct. 15 press release posted on X, the Mexican platform Red Familia (Family Network) denounced a bill that seeks to open “the door to abortion up to nine months” of pregnancy throughout Mexico using “legislative traps.”
The draft opinion, which will be discussed in the Joint Committees for Gender Equality, Health, and Legislative Studies on Wednesday, is promoted by a group of senators from the political parties Morena and Citizens Movement, among them Malú Micher, Olga Sánchez Cordero, and Patricia Mercado. The legislation seeks to change more than 70 articles in five federal laws specifically regarding abortion in Mexico.
The initiative seeks to allow women in the entire country to “freely request safe abortion services to terminate their pregnancy during the first full 12 weeks of the gestation process.” It also proposes that from the 13th week of pregnancy onward this procedure can be requested “at any time” in cases such as “when it has been diagnosed that the product [sic] has genetic or congenital defects.”
The bill also establishes that from the age of 13 it is not necessary to obtain the consent of parents or guardians to undergo an abortion, since “the request made by the adolescent will be sufficient.”