Published by
Reuters
Reuters
By Gabriella Borter MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a federal law criminalizing abortion, reaffirming an earlier ruling that criminal penalties for abortion were unconstitutional and allowing the federal healthcare system to provide services. Mexico’s highest court, which consists of eleven justices, declared that criminal penalties for abortion were unconstitutional in 2021, but the ruling only applied to the northern state of Coahuila, where that case originated. Since then, the country’s 32 states and the federal government have been slow to repeal th…