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The abortion
In Mexico, abortion proceedings fall under local state legislation, as a landmark Supreme court decision in 2008 found no legal impediment to it in the federal Constitution and statedthat, "to affirm that there is an absolute constitutional protection of life in gestation would lead to the violation of the fundamental rights of women".
All states' penal codes permit abortions incases of rape, and all but Guanajuato, Guerrero and Querétaro's permit it to save the mother's life; fourteen out of thirty-one expand these cases to include severe fetal deformities; and the stateof Yucatán includes economic factors when the mother has previously bore three or more children. Nevertheless, according to Jo Tucuman of The Guardian, in practice almost no state provides access toabortions in the cases listed, but also they prosecute neither the doctors who offer safe illegal abortions nor the cheaper life-threatening backstreet practitioners.
There are, however, someexceptions. Since 2007 Mexico City —where approximately 7.87% of the national population lives]— offers abortion on request to any woman up to 12 weeks into a pregnancy] which, along with Cuba's, is one ofthe most liberal legislations on this matter in Latin America. In contrast, recent political lobbying on behalf of the dominant Roman Catholic Church and pro-life organizations has resulted in theamendment of more than half of the state constitutions, which now define a fertilized human egg as a person with a right to legal protection. As of 15 October 2009, none of those states has removed itsexceptions to abortion to reflect the changes in its constitution, but according to Human Rights Watch and a local NGO, over the past eight years the conservative-leaning state of Guanajuato "has deniedevery petition by a pregnant rape victim for abortion services" and about 130 of its residents have been sentenced for seeking or providing illegal abortion
A 2008 study funded by the National...