translated from Spanish: López Obrador asked for respect for the Supreme Court’s historic ruling that declared the criminalization of abortion unconstitutional

The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said on Wednesday that one must be “respectful of the law” after the historic ruling of the Mexican Supreme Court that declared the criminalization of abortion unconstitutional. We have to be respectful of the law. When I took protest as president, I swore to comply with the Constitution and the laws that emanate from it. And then I have to comply,” the president said at the press conference from the Palace Nacional.La Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) of Mexico declared on Tuesday unconstitutional the criminalization of women who abort in the first stage of pregnancy and recognized the right to decide in a historic ruling. Unanimously, the ministers of the plenary of the SCJN invalidated article 196 of the penal code of the northern state of Coahuila that imposed one to three years in prison “on the woman who voluntarily performs her abortion or on the person who makes her abort with consent.” The Supreme Court’s decision only invalidates the penal code of the state in question, Coahuila, but sets a mandatory precedent for all courts in the country, which must rule in favor of women from other states. On Wednesday, López Obrador stressed that he would not give his own position on the issue, but asked for “respect” for the judicial decision: “What I think is that this is a decision of the Judicial Branch, of the Supreme Court, which was practically unanimous and that must be respected.” We, in my case, should not take sides,” the president stressed. And he added that “there are conflicting positions” so he, as president, should not pronounce “more than in favor of what the supreme court ministers have already resolved.” Hours before the ruling, the Mexican president limited himself to saying that it was time to wait for the Supreme Court’s decision, and that he could not give his opinion because he could not “expose himself to wear and tear.” Abortion, whose criminalization is a local competence, is only decriminalized in four of the country’s 32 states: Mexico City, Oaxaca, Hidalgo and Veracruz.



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