The Ministry of Health presented the technical guidelines that must be met by the units of the sector for the care of safe abortion in Mexico.
The document establishes the basic criteria in health units so that women and people with the capacity to gestate, including girls and adolescents, who require abortion services, have access to timely, decisive and comprehensive care.
The attention, she points out, will be based on available scientific evidence, with a gender and human rights perspective.
The director of the National Center for Gender Equity and Reproductive Health (CNEGSR), Karla Berdichevsky Feldman, stressed that this document provides legal certainty that it works within a framework of security and legality, protecting the health rights of users.
It also eliminates barriers for procedures such as the voluntary interruption of pregnancy in case of rape to occur in quality conditions that protect the rights of victims, as a priority strategic line.
International standards recommend the transition to ambulatory abortion care – which reduces risks and costs – and qualify as obsolete instrumental uterine curettage procedures, widely used in Mexico.
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The Ministry of Health said that the technical guidelines take up the standards issued by the World Health Organization (WHO), which states that an abortion is safe when performed with a recommended method with the best available evidence, according to gestational age, with access to adequate information and required care. by health personnel with the necessary technical capacity and space with infrastructure.
After the publication, the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) said that this guideline makes visible the importance of eradicating the inequalities faced by girls, adolescents, women and pregnant people in a particularly vulnerable situation, when requesting medical services and medicines to access safe abortion.
We welcome the publication of the “Technical Guideline for #AbortoSeguro Care in #México” that guarantees access to medical services for the interruption of pregnancy#DefendemosAlPueblo pic.twitter.com/JelwkbtWl0
— CNDH in Mexico (@CNDH) October 21, 2022
Abortion in Mexico
Under certain conditions, voluntary abortion is decriminalized, through legislative reforms, in Mexico City, Oaxaca, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Baja California, Colima, Sinaloa, Guerrero and Baja California.
In Coahuila, decriminalization was achieved through the SCJN’s determination to invalidate Article 196 of the local Penal Code.
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The discussion on the subject is maintained in various entities. On September 28, the Durango Congress rejected the opinion of the initiative that proposed the decriminalization of abortion.
Collectives from Aguascalientes, Puebla, Chihuahua, Chiapas, San Luis Potosí, Morelos, Jalisco, Sonora and Querétaro have filed legal actions to force the homologation of state criminal codes with the criteria of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), which in 2021 declared unconstitutional, definitively, the criminalization of abortion.
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