Mexico’s Supreme Court rules it is unconstitutional to punish abortion, unanimously annulling several provisions of a law from Coahuila — a state on the Texas border—that had made abortion a criminal act.
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Those circumstances will be clarified when the decision is published, but everything points to that referring to abortions carried out within the first 12 weeks of a pregnancy, the period allowed in the four states where abortion is already legal. The topic still remains controversial in Mexico, however. The divide was on display Tuesday as groups from both sides demonstrated outside the court.
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