{"id":4748,"date":"2021-10-01T13:55:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T17:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/news-and-stories\/raising-the-green-wave-in-mexico\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T22:07:55","slug":"raising-the-green-wave-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/es\/news-and-stories\/raising-the-green-wave-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"Levantando la ola verde en M\u00e9xico"},"template":"","class_list":["post-4748","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-news","article_format-news","issue_tax-legal-abortion","issue_legacy-abortion","location-mexico"],"acf":{"details":{"":null,"article_type":26,"article_format":171,"authors":"","add_button":false,"button_type":"link","button":"","download":"","download_button_text":"","featured_image":3815},"sidebar":{"issues":{"title":"Cuestiones prioritarias","issues":[34]},"locations":{"title":"Ubicaci\u00f3n","locations":[102]},"partners":{"title":"Socios","partners":""}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_hero_article","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_hero_article":{"":null,"anchor_id":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"On September 7, 2021, the Mexican Supreme Court ruled that criminal penalties for abortion are unconstitutional because they violate human dignity, autonomy, equality, reproductive health, and freedom, among other rights.\n\nBy striking down the criminalization of women established by the state of Coahuila\u2019s abortion law, which punished abortion with up to three years of jail time, the Supreme Court has set a historic precedent for abortion decriminalization across the country.\n\nTwo days later, the Supreme Court declared the protection of \u201clife from the moment of conception\u201d established by the state of Sinaloa to be unconstitutional. Though states in Mexico have their own abortion laws, Supreme Court rulings apply nationally, and states must now harmonize their laws to the national precedent.\n\nWhile these decisions have an immediate impact on the decriminalization of women, girls, and people who can become pregnant, its operationalization in the form of public sector service delivery will still take time and regulation. Implementation will require advocacy and access efforts from local groups to hold state government and health providers accountable and to scale up support for women, girls, and other pregnant people seeking abortion.\n\nF\u00f2s Feminista provides funding and support to more than a dozen groups in Mexico, ranging from leading abortion activists and national providers of sexual and reproductive health care, to community-based collectives and local safe abortion accompaniment networks. The diversity of these partnerships means that we are pursuing a variety of strategies, from community education to strategic litigation, ultimately creating a stronger movement to advance abortion access.\n<blockquote>\u201cCreo que estas son decisiones innovadoras para replantear el debate sobre el aborto no solo en Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe, sino a nivel mundial\u201d, dijo Giselle Carino, directora ejecutiva de F\u00f2s Feminista. \u201cEsta vez, la cuesti\u00f3n que se debate no es si las personas est\u00e1n \u201ca favor o en contra\u201d del aborto, sino si una mujer o una persona embarazada debe ser encarcelada por abortar. La Suprema Corte de Justicia de M\u00e9xico ha respondido hoy correctamente: no\u201d.\u201d<\/blockquote>\nWeeks after the decision to decriminalize abortion, Mexico\u2019s Supreme Court issued another ruling that further opened opportunities for expanding access to safe and legal abortion. On September 21, the Supreme Court placed limitations on the use of conscientious objection by health staff, clarifying that while it is an individual right, the government must ensure that there are non-objectors in all facilities or at least in the same area.\n\nWe are supporting partners to analyze and integrate the legal implications of these rulings into their work to ensure implementation at the state level and expand access to abortion. For example, we are facilitating South-South collaboration among partners, including trainings for telehealth providers and accompaniment networks on the new legal context. Some of our partners are also conducting high-level advocacy work with state congresses to ensure the penal codes are harmonized with the Supreme Court decision.\n\nIn a context where Indigenous and rural women and girls who are more likely to be criminalized for abortion, we are also focusing on increasing access for these and others who face systemic exclusion. To this end, we are facilitating a South-South training on how to integrate abortion rights into the educational activities of a partner that focuses on Indigenous rights, including the sexual and reproductive health of young people in rural Oaxaca. We are also supporting a partner that reaches women and girls along the migration routes to the North.\n\nMeanwhile, these victories for abortion rights stand in stark contrast to what is happening just across the border from Mexico, in Texas, which recently imposed a draconian abortion ban that bars abortion after six weeks of pregnancy, before many people know they\u2019re pregnant. Just days before the Mexico Supreme Court rulings, the United States Court refused to strike down the law, and women, girls, and others pregnant people in Texas who are seeking abortion are unprotected while the argument continues in federal courts.\n\nThe decisions of Mexico\u2019s Supreme Court demonstrate how strategic litigation can be a powerful tool for advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights. They are already having an impact in the argumentation in similar cases in other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, like Colombia and Ecuador, and they provide inspiration for abortion rights activists in the United States and beyond.","":null,"anchor_id":""}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Raising the Green Wave in Mexico - F\u00f2s Feminista<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Mexican Supreme Court ruled that criminal penalties for abortion are unconstitutional because they violate human dignity.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fosfeminista.org\/es\/news-and-stories\/raising-the-green-wave-in-mexico\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Raising the Green Wave in Mexico - 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