Maren Ewertz,
Whether you like it or not, Mexico’s Supreme Court has just decriminalized abortion nationwide. There have been discussions within Mexico’s Supreme Court about how criminalizing abortion should or should not be considered “unconstitutional.” With the amount of women who marched last year in Mexico City giving a demonstration on International Safe Abortion Day, this discussion was, and has been, an expected one. Abortion is still considered to be illegal in 20 of the country’s 32 states, but as Rebeca Ramos, executive director of a leading abortion rights group, states, “‘We’re on a very good path…This is a recognition that women and people with the ability to gestate have agency and we are first-class citizens. That democracy is coming to us, as well.’”
This article was written by Simon Romero and Emiliano Rodriguez Mega. Both authors specialize in reporting on stories that happen within Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. These authors are writing for those that care about women’s bodily rights as well as those who care about women, and other friends, in Mexico. Abortion is a hot topic right now in the United States, so it would make sense to have the topic be just as hot in Mexico.
This is most certainly news! Not only to the Mexican people, but to everyone. It isn’t every day we as a society change rulings about things as important as abortion. This won’t be news to everyone, but it probably should be. Abortion isn’t just a personal opinion, it is a basic human right.
The authors that wrote this article do a very professional job at writing about this topic without putting in their own opinions on abortion. When it comes to abortion, it is nearly impossible to write without showing a little bit of bias, even if it is unintentional.
Nicely done, Maren. This story came out the same day it was reported that Mexico’s next president will likely be a woman. Both stories are surprising considering Mexico is still a fairly religious, conservative country.