the candidates for the Supreme Court of Justice (SCJN), Yasmín Esquivel and Celia Maya, questioned Monday during his appearance in the Senate what consequences can have for the children adopted by same-sex couples, and also responded to legislators to be questioned on abortion.
Esquivel said to be in favor of life, although he assured that his personal convictions did not interfere in the application of the law, if elected to the post.
Yasmín Esquivel was questioned by legislator Indira Rosales about his opinion on abortion, to which replied: “obviously I am in favour of life; However, it is not a personal or ethical issue, it is an issue where we have to adjust to what the legislation has been established”.
“If ethically or morally I am for or against abortion goes to a second term… “I know that in some States permit it, the legal interruption of pregnancy, however, we have to apply strictly to what remains the standard in the State in which it is giving this”, said.
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According to the candidate, each local Congress is who should decide about the legal interruption of pregnancy in its jurisdiction, since “who knows better the State are local deputies, they know what is the environment, and on the basis of that environment are going to legislate and not” us have to adjust to what they legislate and adapt in favor of what they decide in each case in particular.”
With respect to the adoption of same-sex couples led, Esquivel said that it would have to consult “with the competent authorities” if something is “suitable” for children to reach a family where both (parents) are of the same sex.
“We should analyse it and review it with the competent bodies if it is suitable or not for minor, here must always give priority to the best interests of the child,” he said.
In 2016 the Supreme Court issued the thesis of jurisprudence P./J.9/2016 (10th.), in which it established that, in adoption, the best interests of the child is based on the suitability of the adoptive parents, inside of which are irrelevant sexual orientation, marital status, and the type of family to which the child will be integrated.
According to the Court, “which should be taken into account in this process is if the person or persons comply with essential requirements to be considered as adoptive parents, i.e., if they have the characteristics, strengths and qualities to provide you with a “family to minors”.
Yazmín Esquivel Mossa is a graduate in law at UNAM, with three specializations in administrative law, tax and in the Mexican financial system, from the Universidad Panamericana. Along with Loretta Ortiz Ahlf and Cecilia Maya Garcia, compete to fill the next vacancy of Minister Margarita Luna Ramos in the Supreme Court.
Esquivel, spouse of the contractor José María Rioboó, who has worked with the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was coordinator of advisers to the Attorney General of Legal Affairs and policy criminological of the Attorney General of Justice of the district Federal in 1992 and was in the Secretariat technique of the Commission of Finance of the I legislature of the Assembly of representatives of the Federal District from 1994 to 1997.
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That same year she was appointed and confirmed as judge of the Superior Court room of the contentious administrative of the Federal District, a position that he deals to date, after having been elected for a second term in the Presidency (2015-2019).
The Observatory citizen designations described the contender as #MinistraContratista, and recalled that the other two candidates already participated in a previous process of choice for Minister of the Supreme Court, who were designated to be close to the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
President @lopezobrador_ sends the list to the @SCJN, two of them were part of the previous three and were questioned for their independence; the other option is #MinistraContratista. The @senadomexicano by congruence should reject the terna. #SinCuotasNiCuatas pic.twitter.com/U7DCVfRvNv – designations (@designaciones) February 1, 2019 Celia Maya questioned adoption LGBT Celia Maya, another of the contenders for Minister of the Court, It expressed concern about the effects that, according to her, could have children who were adopted by a LGBT couple.
“Maybe they will be excellent potatoes, do not doubt it, maybe show that they have emotional conditions and all, but how do we control the environment of the child? It worries me”, he said.
However, Maya Garcia said he would not give a position on the adoption of same-sex couples, and said that “a day that is the case we will have to see it and solve it, but by now I think that we definitely have to think about the child how it will affect”.
How to control the environment of a child with same-sex MOM and dad?, asks @CeliaMayaGar. ? The real question is: do as MANDA ANDRES MANUEL a TRIPLET with candidates as well?
Maybe because there is veiled its true position. pic.twitter.com/mqptS1f3In – Alfredo Lecoña (@AlfredoLecona) March 4, 2019 “parents may want it so much and help overcome what is happening in the external environment? I don’t know, they would have to show me on a record that have all that capacity and that child can overcome all these issues which are going to face,”he said.
The lawyer and accountant Celia Maya Garcia has been a contributor to close the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador before Morena to be constituted as a political party, although it has not had any charge within this.
In 2014, when Morena was still a national political association – the prelude to become party – Lopez Obrador Maya Garcia described as “a woman with very good preparation, is a prominent lawyer, (…)” It’s a woman with social dimension and with honesty”, according to a bulletin of the movement.
Maya Garcia coordinated in 2014 part of gathering 2 million signatures to request will be a referendum in the energy field.
The lawyer searched twice Governor of Queretaro: in 2003 by the PRD and 2016 already with Morena. In 2012 he sought a seat in the Senate by the PRD-PT-MC Alliance, but lost. East 2018, returned to contend now by Morena, but also failed to win, because it not topped the list of first minority in your state.
There is case law on adoption and abortion, says Loretta Ortiz third candidate to the Court, Loretta Ortiz, Minister pointed out that, about the legal interruption of pregnancy and adoption between persons of the same sex, jurisprudence, have already has issued so her endeavor was to legal opinions that exist on the subject.
“On termination of pregnancy, subject me to what has argued the Supreme Court… and as I will submit to the laws, the standard-setting system and the clarified which is another source of law, then would have to be what says the jurisprudence, which are 12 weeks,”said Ortiz Ahlf.
About the LGBT adoption, the candidate indicated that it will be subject to decisions given concerning the Supreme Court and the Inter-American Court of human rights, and said that it should be analysed every case that search to adopt a child, taking into account the in childhood upper Teres.
“In this area plays a very important role interest child, established in the Convention International of the rights of the child, which is the international instrument ratified by the largest number of States”, he explained.
Ortiz Ahlf is close to Lopez Obrador, and together with his spouse, the Adviser for the moral Constitution, José Agustín Ortiz Pinchetti, has shown its support from the first time that he ran for President.
It was also Deputy federal by Morena in 2013, and during the transition period, she was appointed by President López Obrador as coordinator of the forums by pacification and national reconciliation, promoter of the criticized proposal of amnesty to criminals.
Dr. Ortiz was lawyer of several complaints about violation of human rights before the Inter-American Commission on human rights, linked to the violation of the right of voting fraud in 2016, according to his resume, posted on the web site of Andrew Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Ortiz holds a PhD in human rights and European Community law by the University of Spain, master in human rights from the Universidad Iberoamericana, and she graduated in law from the Escuela Libre de Derecho, where he works as a teacher from 1979 also works as a professor in the Universidad Iberoamericana of Bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in human rights since 1981 and is a member of the national system of researchers level II.
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