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There was a bit of great news this week as the Mexican Supreme Court rejected a proposed law, which would have opened the door to abortion on demand in to every state in Mexico.
 
The proposed decision was put forward by Supreme Court Justice Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea and would have required all of Mexico’s 31 states to allow for abortion on demand during the first trimester of pregnancy, with certain restrictions for abortions taking place in later trimesters.  This is the policy that currently exists in the Mexican capital, Mexico City and which abortion activists would like to see expanded throughout the country.

 
The proposed law would also have required states to establish clinics in order to provide “affordable” abortion services. Justice Zaldivar argued that the current legislation represents “real discrimination against women’s health.”
 
CNS News reports, “The court voted 3-1 against a move to pave the way for on-demand abortion access, rejecting a request to declare unconstitutional two pieces of legislation that effectively outlaw abortion, limiting access to specific circumstances of pregnancy endangering the woman’s life or cases of rape.”
 
The case that this decision centered on involved a 41-year-old woman who sought to terminate her pregnancy when it was discovered that her unborn baby had Klinefelter syndrome, which is a non-life threatening condition that can affect physical and cognitive development of the child. 
 
As the pregnancy was not the result of rape and her life was not in danger, the woman failed to meet the grounds for an abortion at a federal clinic in Mexico City.   Though she later obtained an abortion a private clinic, she sued the government for violation of her “human rights”.
 
It is very encouraging that the Mexican Supreme Court have stood by their principles and rejected this proposed decision, in favor on laws the protect life, regardless of the potential disability a child might have.

It is responsibility of the courts and the government to protect human life and human rights- including the right to life.  It is not, their responsibility to allow this essential human right to be violated.  It is wonderful to hear that Mexico still remembers this.