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submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Well, most Americans are progressive on the issues, including abortion, but due to absurd things like the Electoral College, and the way our power is distributed through states and the way in which rural areas have much more influence than they should, conservatives are given way too much power in relation to their numbers.

[-] dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

But without that, the majority would be tyrants!

[-] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 2 points 11 months ago

But... But democracy. And the land of the free! Say it ain't so...

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oh please, if we didn't have the electoral college the south wouldn't be able to serve as the moral compass of the country and couldn't guide us away from such evils as slavery and racism.

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