Decriminalization of Abortion in Mexico City

The Effects on Women’s Reproductive Rights

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ID11017374
AutoresDavida Becker (0000-0002-4224-6346, Davida Becker is with the Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. At the time this study was conducted, Claudia Díaz Olavarrieta was with the National Institute of Public Health, Tlalpan, Mexico.), Claudia Díaz Olavarrieta (Davida Becker is with the Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. At the time this study was conducted, Claudia Díaz Olavarrieta was with the National Institute of Public Health, Tlalpan, Mexico.), Claudia Dı́az-Olavarrieta (0000-0002-6964-4109, University of Southern California)
Ano2013
Volume103
Fascículo4
Páginas590-593
Data de publicação2013-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditoraAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2012.301202
PMID23409907
PMCIDPMC3673241
OpenAlexW2038618248
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas18

In April 2007, the Mexico City, Mexico, legislature passed landmark legislation decriminalizing elective abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. In Mexico City, safe abortion services are now available to women through the Mexico City Ministry of Health’s free public sector legal abortion program and in the private sector, and more than 89 000 legal abortions have been performed. By contrast, abortion has continued to be restricted across the Mexican states (each state makes its own abortion laws), and there has been an antichoice backlash against the legislation in 16 states. Mexico City’s abortion legislation is an important first step in improving reproductive rights, but unsafe abortions will only be eliminated if similar abortion legislation is adopted across the entire country

Abortion · Abortion law · Decriminalization · Environmental health · Family planning · Legislation · Legislature · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Public health · Reproductive health · Reproductive rights · Research methodology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Reproductive Health and Technologies