The Congress of Guanajuato rejected on Thursday the proposal to decriminalize abortion in the entity, after a tense discussion of almost four hours, and with that the initiative that can be discussed until the next ordinary period in September was filed.
With 19 votes in favor and 17 against, the Congress formalized the rejection of turning Guanajuato into the 23 state of the country to join legalize abortion.
The vote that made the difference was that of the deputy of the Green Ecological Party of Mexico (PVEM), Luz Itzel Mendo, who mentioned not agreed that abortion is “treated as one more service.”
“I do not agree that it is normalized as a public policy. In Guanajuato there are no women in prison for aborting (…) that means that it is not necessary to eliminate the criminal type to protect women, the woman is already protected in this state,” he settled.
With this decision, Guanajuato stagnates in the list of nine states that have not decriminalized abortion in the country, despite the judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) that orders the local congresses to harmonize their laws with the constitutional criteria regarding reproductive rights.
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This state vote was under the gaze of international organizations such as the United Nations Agency for Sexual and Reproductive Health (UNFPA), which prior to the vote made a call with which he stressed the urgency to advance “towards a regulatory framework that guarantees the equality and protection of women’s human rights.”
The opinion, which was postponed to discussion on May 29 for a draw with 18 votes for and against, was aimed at discussing three initiatives to reform the State Criminal Code regarding the decriminalization of voluntary abortion.
Guanajuato has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies with 31%, in addition in this same state they have been treated in hospitals 466 people from 1 to 17 years of sexual violence, 90.8% of these cases corresponded to women, according to network figures for the rights of childhood in Mexico.
In 2007, Mexico City was the country’s first jurisdiction to decriminalize abortion until week 12, although recently the Congress of the capital put on the table the elimination of the deadline to abort, which – for the capital’s legislative – contributes to the “criminalization and affects the most vulnerable women”.
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As of 2019, the decision of Mexico City was progressively adopted by the states of Campeche, Chihuahua, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Veracruz, Hidalgo, Baja California, Colima, Guerrero, Baja California Sur, Quintana Roo, Aguascalientes, Sinaloa, Jalisco, San Luis Potosí, Puebla, Michoacán, Zacatecas, State of Mexico, State of Mexico. Chiapas, Coahuila, Yucatán and Tabasco.
With EFE information
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