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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.”

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[-] oce@jlai.lu 41 points 11 months ago

It seems even the pope is more progressive than American right now.

[-] BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 11 months ago

Legitimately wild for the Pope to point blank call the US regressive.

Not out of hypocrisy (though, yeah - solidarity with survivors and the colonised) - but because he was actually really justified in what he said to reach that.

Wild. Absolutely wild. The US is so comically bad faith a society even the pope can eloquate why it's awful.

[-] TwoGems@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Because like 40% of our people are literally insane and living in a different reality

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

It boggles my minds that in the USA the catholics are considered the reasonable christians.

[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 1 points 11 months ago

The pope doesn’t do shit agains his organisations centuries long paedophilia problem.

Not even the US is that bad.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

You don't have to literally be a pedophile to be truly truly terrible, there's lots of ways to be that.

That is to say, that does not excuse anyone. "At least we didn't fuck children" is not a defense or an excuse. The deeper right wing in the US still utter scum that needs to be shown the door and then have a fence built after them (and make them pay for it!) to make sure they don't come back. Independent of whether the vatican state tried to cover up the church's massive and systemic pedophilia.

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

The sbc has a vastly worse pedophilia problem, has for decades, but they can cover it up well because they drive the girls to suicide because nobody would ever believe a good man like their daddy touched them there.

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