Mexico’s supreme court has decriminalised abortion nationwide. It ruled that criminal penalties for terminating pregnancies were unconstitutional. The judgement comes two years after the court ruled in favour of a challenge to the existing law in the northern state of Coahuila. Mexico’s states and the federal government had since been slow to repeal penal codes. […]

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