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Avalanche of antiabortion laws in Mexico

May 22, 2009

In the last 13 months, 12 of Mexico's 32 states have approved amendments to their state constitutions defining a fertilized human egg as a person with a right to legal protection, and seven other state parliaments are taking steps in the same direction.

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) say it is a massive conservative reaction to a law decriminalizing abortion up to 12 weeks' gestation that went into force in the Mexican capital in April 2007. The law was upheld in August 2008 by the Supreme Court, which ruled that it did not violate the Mexican constitution.

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